Racial differences in mortality are large, persistent and likely caused, at least in part, by racism. While the causal pathways linking racism to mortality are conceptually well defined, empirical evidence to support causal claims related to its effect on health is incomplete. In this study, we provide a unique set of facts about racial disparities […]
Racial Disparities in Mortality by Sex, Age, and Cause of Death
Racial Disparities in Mortality by Sex, Age, and Cause of Death
25 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, health economics, politics - USA Tags: cancer survival rates, life expectancies, racial discrimination
The Grim Logic of Israel’s War
24 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, laws of war, war and peace Tags: bombing of Germany, Gaza Strip, Iran, Israel, Middle-East politics, World War I, World War II
If the best course of action is to avoid war, then the second-best course, with war already raging, is to end it. Chris Trotter writes – THE LOGIC OF WAR is pitiless and relentless. Once embarked upon, warfare creates needs and imposes priorities that cannot be ignored without imposing unsustainable costs on one’s own military […]
The Grim Logic of Israel’s War
I like maps
24 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, International law Tags: economics of borders, maps
Polio
24 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines
Supreme Court Delivers Blow To California Climate Zealots
24 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, transport economics
“The Supreme Court put to rest any question about whether fuel manufacturers have a right to challenge unlawful electric vehicle mandates,” American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) President and CEO Chet Thompson said in a statement.
Supreme Court Delivers Blow To California Climate Zealots
I like maps
24 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, maps, World War I
The Claude Rains School of Constitutional Law: Democrats Denounce Iranian Attack as Unconstitutional
23 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: constitutional law, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Yesterday, I wrote a column in the Hill discussing how Trump is unlikely to go to Congress in launching an attack on Iran and how he has history on his side in acting unilaterally. The column noted that many Democratic politicians and pundits who were supportive of such unilateral actions by Democratic presidents such as […]
The Claude Rains School of Constitutional Law: Democrats Denounce Iranian Attack as Unconstitutional
Slowly Strangling the Death Tax
23 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic growth, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: death taxes, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings
Back in 2013, I debated Joe Biden’s top economist on the death tax. Everything I said then (and wrote four years before then) is still true today. In the interview, I mentioned nations that have abolished their death taxes, including Australia. I should have mentioned Sweden as well. As a general rule, I don’t want […]
Slowly Strangling the Death Tax
Dunajtschik backs Chung
23 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: Wellington
The Herald reports: A key donor of Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung has been revealed, with rich-list philanthropist Sir Mark Dunajtschik confirming his financial backing for the mayoral hopeful. Chung, currently a first-term city councillor, is running to lead the capital city on a platform of cutting key projects to implement zero rates increases. … […]
Dunajtschik backs Chung
Are Molten Salt Reactors the Future of Nuclear Power?
23 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: atomic energy
Caturday felid trifects: Your cat knows your smell; annoyed kitties; why you shouldn’t give milk to cats
22 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in cats
This article from the NYT recounts a new study from PLOS One in which researchers tried to understand whether cats knew the scent of their staff as opposed to other cat owners and other people who didn’t own cats (click on screenshot to read, or find the original article archived here). The results are straightforward, […]
Caturday felid trifects: Your cat knows your smell; annoyed kitties; why you shouldn’t give milk to cats
Is ‘by Maori for Maori’ shifting the dial?
21 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: racial discrimination
On June 18, 2025, Health New Zealand published extensive data (March 2025 quarter) in a two-page spread contained in The Post. I assume this was replicated in other New Zealand newspapers. Included were childhood immunisation rates. At the bottom of the table for full immunisation at 24 months are Northland and Tairawhiti districts (improving trend) followed…
Is ‘by Maori for Maori’ shifting the dial?
Second Battle of the Piave River I THE GREAT WAR Week 204
21 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Supreme Court Delivers a Blow to Transgender Cases
21 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, gender, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling upholding a Tennessee ban on transgender medical treatments for adolescents. The ruling has major implications for pending transgender cases, particularly the concurrence of Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejecting the claim that transgender status qualifies as a group entitled to heightened scrutiny under the Constitution. One of those […]
The Supreme Court Delivers a Blow to Transgender Cases
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