The Most Dangerous Monopoly: When Caution Kills
13 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: drug lags, Drug safety, Product safety, The fatal conceit
2 Minutes with Friedman
12 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, David Friedman, development economics, economics of regulation, labour economics Tags: spontaneous order, The fatal conceit
.@nzfamilies commission estimate of cost of zoning
11 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
The Coase Theorem
06 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase theorem
Will bicyclists be banned when human driving is banned because self-driving cars are so much safer?
05 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, transport economics
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The Most Dangerous Monopoly: When Caution Kills
25 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics Tags: drug lags
Do-gooders want to introduce rent controls and security of tenure to restrain rapacious landlords further. Little wonder every 3rd Auckland rental property is sold and the tenants evicted every 2 years.
12 Feb 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, urban economics
Why America still uses Fahrenheit
10 Feb 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of regulation
How China is changing Hollywood despite admitting only 34 films per year
05 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, movies Tags: Censorship, China
More on solution aversion
29 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: motivated reasoning


Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)
27 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Corruption in driver’s licenses
21 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: economics of corruption, India
How Americans Found a Clever Loophole in the Prohibition Act; Trigger warning wine lovers
07 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: black markets, economics of prohibition, offsetting behaviour, prohibition era, unintended consequences
Well said @GreenpeaceNZ @GreenpeaceAP
21 Dec 2017 1 Comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs




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