Doctor Casino
A renegade economist shares his thoughts on a wide variety of issues.
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Time To Take One Nation Seriously (opens the original)
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Note: This was originally published in The Spectator - Flat White and the unedited version of the article has been placed here with permission. You can find the article on The Spectator HERE.The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the Coalition’s polling, its own documented infighting, as well as One Nation’s results in the Farrer by-election and South Australian state election, the party can no longer be dismissed as fringe or marginal or some sort of ‘fa
In Defense of the Functionalist Theory of Faith (opens the original)
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Substack superstar Scott Alexander recently said that apparently, a new round of the “theism vs atheism” debate has commenced.I feel old. I was a participant in New Atheism before it was sundered by an event that, in hindsight, can be described as the flashpoint of the “Woke 1.0” culture war. That event was named Elevatorgate, and I’ll let you investigate it yourselves. The wounds from that culture war remain even to this day – the organizational infrastructures of New Atheism became little more
Holly, Marilyn, and Somewhat Missing The Mark (opens the original)
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As someone with a substack, I spend some (probably too much) time reading other substacks. Sometimes I agree with what I read, other times I greatly disagree, and other times still I come away with mixed and confused response. But among the most interesting articles I’ve recently read is Holly MathNerd’s exegesis of Marilyn Manson’s infamous rock album <a href="https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/i-wasnt-born-with-enough-middle
When Depressing Theories Have Uplifting Implications: Education Edition (opens the original)
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Economic theories have often been characterized as depressing, to the point where economics is often called “the dismal science.” But sometimes, a theory that sounds initially depressing can have very uplifting implications, and vice-versa. In this previous article of mine, I took a look at the Subjective Theory of Value, which has the immediate and depressing implication that hard work is worthless (no one cares about the amount of work in the thing, they only care if they like the result), yet
The Six Sacred Myths of the Illiberal Right (opens the original)
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Consider this a sequel piece to The Seven Sacred Myths of the Modern Left.Some may note that this piece is substantially longer and less dismissive than its precursor. Part of the reason for this is, that as someone on the liberal right (i.e. libertarian/classical liberal), my intellectual milieu is more likely to be toxified by ideas that flow through right wing circles than left wing circles, and this diverts energy away from political causes that I support (i.e. it pushes people with libertar
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