Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley

05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: , , ,

Ross McKitrick explains carbon taxes and cap & trade

05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

The wages of sin since 1926 has been 2.5% per year @jamespeshaw @NZGreens @Greens @greenpeaceusa @mfe_news

04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand

From https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/21/sin-stocks-outperform-personal-finance-sin-stocks.html#3b5f89954cfd and http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/mkacperc/public_html/sin.pdf

Nanny-in-Chief

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by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: , ,

Posner on affirmative action

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Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”

02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: , , , , ,

Does Fractional Reserve Banking Endanger the Economy? A Debate

02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: ,

What drives housing prices up?

01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics

From https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.32.1.3

The Feel-Good Folly of Fossil-Fuel Divestment! @TaxpayersUnion

01 Mar 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , , ,

From https://www.wsj.com/articles/daniel-r-fischel-the-feel-good-folly-of-fossil-fuel-divestment-1423527484

The wages of sin make a comeback after a bad year for the vice fund

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics

From https://money.cnn.com/quote/mutualfund/mutualfund.html?symb=VICEX

Asymmetric Information and Used Cars

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: ,

Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: , , ,

From https://nyti.ms/29yvZ9y

This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Why does @Megan_Woods want to raise petrol prices?

27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, energy economics, politics - New Zealand

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=NNO9FzRYP4UC&pg=PA281&lpg=PA281&dq=economics+gasoline+divorcement&source=bl&ots=0zdPHGj8Et&sig=ACfU3U19hWCedeOwBRFXu_yFj7EFLstyGg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj25beqlPHnAhVPfisKHRNUD284ChDoATACegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=economics%20gasoline%20divorcement&f=false

My @NZHerald op-ed @nzdrug @_chloeswarbrick @familyfirstnz

27 Feb 2020 2 Comments

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

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