Climate Alarmism Isn’t Rational
09 Sep 2019 8 Comments
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Thomas Sargent on rational expectations and the effect of taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Is there a social cost to prematurely or erroneously denouncing a political opponent as a racist?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left

Ignorance is strength for the woke left
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Richard Allen Posner on crisis in capitalism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Richard Posner Tags: bank panics
Oh so cruel
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of natural disasters, health economics Tags: food snobs

Behind the lies of Holocaust denial | Deborah Lipstadt
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, law and economics, laws of war, movies, war and peace Tags: The Holocaust
The solution to the #ClimateEmergency is at hand but is ignored because it might work @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, Thomas Schelling Tags: international public goods

Note for @NZGreens
05 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, vaccines

Note for the anti-science left
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in economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-GMO movement, cranks

Ramped up #ClimateEmergency rhetoric hasn’t increased voter willingness to #feelthebern in the hip pocket
05 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

When people from the back blocks come to town
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination




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