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Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?

24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit

#EarthDay @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @Oxfam @SenWarren

23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape

The Corona Shutdown is Unsustainable: Bjorn Lomborg on the Ben Shapiro show

21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists

Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism

20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape

Another Great Escape

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Still more on #marilynwaring and economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic growth, economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, gender wage gap, marital division of labour, marital labour supply

from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/316102?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Perspective: Marilyn Waring questions how the #GDP is calculated: "The single largest sector of the economy is #UnpaidChildcare. The second largest sector is all the rest of the unpaid work before banking and insurance."#TedTalk #MarilynWaring
https://t.co/Fm12q5qfuo
— Institute for Gender and the Economy (@GenderEconomy) February 8, 2020

50 years on and unpaid labour is still #undervalued and seen as #womenswork. #MarilynWaring #AnneManne @THEMONTHLY: https://t.co/5195qceskc
— WGEA (@WGEAgency) May 17, 2018

.@Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, Nomad, Heretic

16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, gender, growth disasters, law and economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror

The demographic transition

16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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The Great Escape

15 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Market for Victimhood

13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of religion, gender, liberalism Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Peak farmland wasn’t predicted by Malthus nor @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @greenpeaceAU

13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism

From https://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/PDR.SUPP%20Final%20Paper.pdf

J’Accuse @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @greenpeaceAU

13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=J6grDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=brand+customary+indifference+to+starvation&source=bl&ots=8LxzXJNX22&sig=ACfU3U1ac5WmJU-OMWThSaiY8m6whIMllg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimtuPioOToAhWlyDgGHSWSAikQ6AEwAHoECAwQKQ#v=onepage&q=brand%20customary%20indifference%20to%20starvation&f=false

The Meaning of Socialism: Q&A with National Review’s Kevin Williamson

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: economics of socialism, The fatal conceit

Steven Pinker | Talks at Google

07 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

The Great Fact

06 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

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