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Club Troppo - January 2, 2009 - 9:21am

Tim Blair reports on Yvonne Ridley – the British journalist who converted to Islam after being kidnapped by the Taliban – who has won a case for unfair dismissal against the Islam News Channel. Earlier in the year she won nearly £14,000 in damages after winning a four-year unfair dismissal case against Arabic TV station al-Jazeera. She now works for Iranian-based PressTV. Read more »

A thin ray of sunshine in the fortress of government

Club Troppo - December 11, 2008 - 2:21pm

Via the indefatigable David Bath comes word that Lindsay Tanner has taken up blogging in limited form. Right now it’s a bit officially-flavoured, but that may change. Read more »

A thin ray of sunshine in the fortress of government

Club Troppo - December 11, 2008 - 2:21pm

Via the indefatigable David Bath comes word that Lindsay Tanner has taken up blogging in limited form. Right now it’s a bit officially-flavoured, but that may change. Read more »

Austrian economics in ten points

Club Troppo - November 25, 2008 - 7:56am

Peter Boettke has written a piece to introduce the main elements of Austrian economics in ten points.

The Science of Economics

Proposition 1: Only individuals choose.

Proposition 2: The study of the market order is fundamentally about exchange behavior and the institutions within which exchanges take place.

Proposition 3: The “facts” of the social sciences are what people believe and think.

Microeconomics

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