Fast Car – Tracy Chapman: the trap of intergenerational poverty
06 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of media and culture, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, intergenerational poverty, Tracey Chapman
A clear threat to the Darwin awards
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Billy Connolly Prostate Examination
05 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
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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.
Conjecture and refutation
04 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
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What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics
03 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
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Wingsuit Flight Over An Active Volcano
28 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
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Creative destruction in print media revenue and employment
26 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle
John Cleese – I Could Care Less
25 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
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Douglas Adams and his laws of technology
24 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
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Creative destruction in New Zealand advertising market shares
23 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
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Source: KPMG valuation report on Television New Zealand Limited, 18 December 2013 via Valuation Reports for SOEs -2013 — The Treasury – New Zealand.
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