Why Should My Boss Get All the Profits?
28 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: labour theory of value
.@thinkprogress explains why @jamespeshaw doesn’t want to know the cost of #globalwarming as % of NZ GDP
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists

Data manipulation in The Spirit Level
19 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%

From @PaulKrugman’s review of Nordhaus’ Climate Casino @jamespeshaw @Greenpeacenz
17 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists

Going for the 2°C (a Stern approach) could be twice as costly ($67.3tr) as doing nothing
13 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
William Nordhaus: The Economics of Climate Change
09 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice
These US estimates are still small @jamespeshaw @mfe_news; mostly from loss of life which is the easiest to fix by mitigation and adaptation
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

From S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Even runaway climate change of 6 to 8°C reduces GDP by by 2100! less than 10%
US has county level estimates but @jamespeshaw can’t estimate cost of global warming for NZ! @mfe_news says it is too hard!!
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Energy efficiency doesn’t actually pay
23 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: energy efficiency, green paradox
David Friedman at Libertopia 2010
21 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction




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