“But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next generation? No.”
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
25 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Marginal Revolution Podcast–The New Monetary Economics!
25 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Today on the MR Podcast Tyler and I discuss the “New Monetary Economics”. Here’s the opening TABARROK: Today we’re going to be talking about the new monetary economics. Now, perhaps the first thing to say is that it’s not new anymore. The new monetary economics refers to a set of claims and ideas about monetary economics […]
Marginal Revolution Podcast–The New Monetary Economics!
All I Want for Christmas Is a Constitutional Crisis
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics Tags: Canada, constitutional law
The Most Chaotic Week in Ottawa Since February 1963 Chrystia Freeland resigned as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister in spectacular fashion on Monday, 16 December 2024 mere hours before she would have delivered the Fall Economic Update in the House of Commons. She revealed that Trudeau had informed her the previous Friday that […]
All I Want for Christmas Is a Constitutional Crisis
A terrible decision by Treasury
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Eric Crampton writes: This week, the Treasury barred representatives from the Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union from attending its restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update. Treasury said the briefings provide time to consider materials before public release. The aim is more accurate reporting and greater “transparency and accountability […]
A terrible decision by Treasury
The Power of Big Ice Cream
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of obesity, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
You’ve heard of Big Oil, Big Tech and Big Pharma. Now it has been revealed that there is another player in this game: Big Ice Cream: San Francisco’s new consultant on “weight stigma” is a pro-fat activist promoted by the food industry. On Monday, Virgie Tovar, the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, announced the new role […]
The Power of Big Ice Cream
Is Indian food the world’s best?
24 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture
From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming from my background as an economist. Interestingly, India’s culinary advantages can be traced to some good and some not-so-good aspects of Indian society. First, food supply chains here are typically very short. Trucking, refrigeration and […]
Is Indian food the world’s best?
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
If you haven’t already done yours here is a helping hand from Hobsons Pledge so now you will have no excuse not to get to it. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11.59PM ON 7 JANUARY 2025!!!!! You can use the following as a guide – I am going to – but, use your own words and under […]
Treaty Principles Submissions – Hobsons Pledge Lend A Hand
The Joy is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest for the Holidays
24 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the rising rage of the holiday on the left as we approach the second Trump inauguration. From looking forward to harassment at restaurants to the purchase of Antifa-themed Christmas gifts, some appear to be planning for a hate-fest in the New Year. Here is the column:
The Joy is Gone: A Liberal Hate-Fest for the Holidays
British Advance At Passchendaele I THE GREAT WAR Week 165
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth miracles Tags: China
The only takeaways from the coal use data are that countries with sensible leaders are looking to the energy needs of their citizens and that climate is too complex an issue to attribute to a gas that is 0.04% of Earth’s atmosphere.
Coal Use Hits Record High in 2024 Thanks to India and China
12th century
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, International law, law and economics, property rights Tags: economics of borders, Mapa
Poverty and crime
23 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Introduction The relationship between poverty and crime has long been a topic of social studies, with many assuming that poverty is a major driving force behind criminal behavior. This essay argues that this perspective oversimplifies the complexities of both poverty and crime, presenting a misleading narrative about their correlation. By acknowledging that the majority of poor […]
Poverty and crime
Quotation of the Day…
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
Tweet… is from page 189 of Thomas Sowell’s 1993 collection, Is Reality Optional?: There are people who seem to think that the world owes them an awful lot, but who feel no need to explain what they have contributed to the world that led to this great debt. DBx: This group of people includes, of…
Quotation of the Day…
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
22 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Sent in a few minutes ago. Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill I thank you for the opportunity to make a Submission on this very important Treaty Principles Bill which I support very strongly for a number of reasons – not least of those being the undemocratic way the the Labour Government in the […]
My Submission On The Treaty Principles Bill
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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