
Day 1 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: single use bag for meat, 15 cent thick bag that might recycle as a shoe bag in suitcase. 15 cent bag isn’t worth putting aside
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Green fascism, recycling, The fatal conceit

Why Was It Illegal to be “Ugly”?
31 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: nanny state
Why Was Crossdressing Illegal?
26 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: nanny state
How Uber was kept out of Germany
26 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: Germany, taxi regulation
What Happens When A State Grows Way Too Much Weed
26 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: marijuana decrimilization
The Left’s War on Science – John Tierney
22 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: Anti-Science left, regressive left
Walter Williams Suffers No Fools
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination, Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell – Preferential Policies (Fascinating 1990 Interview)
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Tullock Lecture: Richard Epstein
20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment regulation, Uber
Should the bikini be banned? (1961)
18 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Thomas Sowell on The Limits of Discrimination
11 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination
How we decide? – Steven Landsburg 2008
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, Public Choice, public economics
What makes countries rich or poor?
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape
More Sex is Safer Sex | Prof Steven Landsburg
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences

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