Dr. Ross McKitrick
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
William Nordhaus on DICE, PAGE and FUND not modelling tipping points
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics
With friends like this, #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion won’t live to face its enemies @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Beauty wage premium econometric’s flaw is women think most men are ugly and men have no idea
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice

From http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-08-28.html
Sex differences in mate preferences are no smaller in more gender-equal nations, contrary to the idea that these di… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…—
Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 31, 2019
How Nordhaus responded to #globalwarming skeptics
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, philosophy of science

Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

P-values Broke Scientific Statistics—Can We Fix Them?
13 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics Tags: data mining
A balanced sample of views on the minimum wage
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of regulation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: data mining, monopsony

DNA testing makes criminals vote with their feet @sst_nz
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

Lee Ohanian: Hoover, Roosevelt and the Great Depression
19 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, great depression, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: real business cycles






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