Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in defence economics, International law, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, war against terror
The title of Peter Bergen’s latest book ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR is a misnomer. The War on Terror did not begin on 9/11 as attacks against American interests took place long before planes flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The bombing of the Marine barracks […]
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S WARS: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE WAR ON TERROR by Peter Bergen
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in economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, macroeconomics Tags: The Great Enrichment
08 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioral genetics
Greetings from Yellowstone!Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids is the only book I ever wrote that definitely improved the world a lot. A lower-bound estimate is that several hundred extra babies were born as a result — a social value of over a billion dollars. Now a new edition of the book, shipping November 17,…
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: 15th-Anniversary Edition
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in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
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Quebec has just held its National Assembly (provincial parliament) general election. The results are a striking degree of fragmentation of the aggregate province-wide votes, with a highly disproportional seat allocation. The electoral system is, of course, single-seat plurality (or FPTP). The Parti Quebecois (PQ) has a plurality of the vote, at just 28%. Preliminary results […]
Quebec 2026
07 Oct 2026 1 Comment
in development economics, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election, China
Nick Mowbray writes: I’m aware of the criticism we receive for donating to National and ACT. I’m also aware of the false narrative that we lobby the government and expect something in return. So let me be clear: we have never lobbied the government. Less than 1% of ZURU’s revenue is in New Zealand. We…
Why Mowbray donates
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in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, International law, resource economics Tags: India
By Vijay Jayaraj India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, used the U.N. General Assembly gathering to say something that climate scaremongers like Al Gore and John Kerry have spent… The post India Rejects UN Climate Politics in Favor of Industrialization appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
India Rejects UN Climate Politics in Favor of Industrialization
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in labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 2026 general election
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Welfare is markedly missing from 2026 election campaign issues.There’s been far more debate about Super: its cost, means-testing and the age of eligibility. New Zealand is an outlier. Australia, the UK and the US have a qualifying age of 67. Whether NZ joins must be decided. Super isn’t sustainable. But what […]
Welfare missing from 2026 election
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: 2026 general election, gender wage gap
Bryce Edwards writes – Chris Hipkins has described the coalition’s decision to cancel pay equity claims under urgency as “probably the most reprehensible thing I have seen in my time as a member of Parliament”. He accused ministers of “robbing Paula to pay Paul” and of “sacrificing equal pay for women in order to balance […]
Labour is reneging on its pay equity promise
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: hyperinflation, monetary policy
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in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
There is a broad literature supporting the existence of a ‘beauty premium’ in labour markets – more attractive workers tend to earn more. There are a number of channels proposed to account for this, including confidence, social or communication skills being higher among more attractive workers, attractive workers sorting into occupations that reward attractiveness, and…
The beauty premium doesn’t seem to extend to billionaires
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in economic history, Public Choice Tags: Nazi Germany
It is easy to forget that the Nazis didn’t take power, they were democratically elected, although they did not shy away from using violence to secure the votes. However, despite the bullying tactics by the SA, people still had a choice to vote for the NSDAP or any other party. The General election of July […]
When 13,745,680 People Voted for the Nazis
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in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
A couple of weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times published a piece by me (that they’d requested) trying to explain productivity and why it mattered. The mandate for that piece included avoiding controversy (around, notably, specific ideas for reversing New Zealand’s decades-long productivity underperformance). As a follow-up to that, the editor invited me to participate in […]
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Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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