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Cutting the aid budget is a bad idea – I say this as a long time sceptic of *development* aid, and admirer of the great PT Bauer, one of the
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Some thoughts on United States vs Google, the lawsuit that might end up being this era's US vs Microsoft. I am not a lawyer and these are my judgements about
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It's depressing to watch this country repeat the mistakes it made in March, which will make mortality AND the economic impact worse.https://twitter.com/IronEconomist/status/1314539120505630722 Saving the economy vs lives is a false
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I'm kind of relieved by the House Judiciary Committee antitrust report. The recommendations are bad, as expected, but it's just a mess. It's the world's longest green ink letter, written
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1. I read the Buck Report last night, which he's framing as a "third way". I'm glad he hasn't endorsed the Cicilline report, but what he's proposing would lead to
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Collective action problems and Covid: a thread. Many people, rightly, point out that Covid is not just a matter of individual choice, because it is a negative externality. Mary's behaviour
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I always hated "ok boomer" for being so rude to the generation that fought Hitler. I'm glad that normies picking it up only took a month to kill it. Didn't
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Suburbs in the UK are hell, so America's love of "single-family zoning" never made sense to me. The beautiful homes in Portland make me understand why people here are attached
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The only reason the UK wouldn't set up a charter city for ALL Hong Kongers, on some empty piece of land on the coast somewhere, is that it seems weird
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I have written with @pdmsero on Sweden as the Covid counterfactual – "Live free and die".https://thecritic.co.uk/live-free-and-die-swedens-coronavirus-experience/ We describe what we know now about Covid – that it is extremely
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I think the Precautionary Principle" is a bogus way of thinking about risk. Eg, reopening schools. The precautionary principle must work in both directions – we (a) mustn't risk another
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This exchange shows what I see as two different kinds of leftism: one preoccupied with fairness/equality as it relates to race & sex, one as it relates to class. The
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