The “natural” label on your food is baloney
29 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: consumer fraud
What do @GreenpeaceNZ, #McDonalds and @Forest_and_Bird no longer have in common?
05 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - New Zealand Tags: brand names, economics of advertising, Forest and Bird, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, McDonald's, New Zealand Greens
Like McDonalds, Greenpeace globally is a brand. Forest and Bird is a local conservation brand. Until last year, I was utterly clueless as to who its leaders were. That is a deliberate branding decision in the past by McDonalds.
Greenpeace New Zealand and Forest and Bird were also pretty faceless in terms of who their chief executives were.This meant people were less likely to conflate the far left backgrounds of its leaders and activist support base with their self appointed environmental do-gooders brands.
No more, no longer. Greenpeace NZ appointed the former leader of the New Zealand Greens as its Chief Executive last year. Forest and Bird now appointed the Green MP who wanted to succeed him as leader of the Greens as their chief executive. Both bring political baggage.
I do not wish Greenpeace well with its anti-growth, anti-science, anti-human agenda, so I hope this was a mistake they made last year. I hope I am not interrupting them in making that mistake. Forest and Bird appears to be antigrowth as well so let them make this mistake as well.
The consequences of lifestyle taxes in Australia
24 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics, economics of information, economics of regulation Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Yes Prime Minister, opinion polls and leading questions
17 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, television Tags: opinion polls, voter demographics, Yes Prime Minister
Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
16 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, rational irrationality
Dara O’Briain: Science doesn’t know everything
27 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture
Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter
11 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics, economics of information, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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