Speaking of #GMO dangers @GreenpeaceNZ @NZGreens
21 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, antiscience left, creative destruction, GMOs, Greenpeace, New Zealand Greens
Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
18 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left
Who is More Phobic About Science–Conservatives or Liberals?
17 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left
The #GMO body count @GreenpeaceNZ @Greenpeace
15 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, GMOs
#GMO the most regulated & tested product in agricultural history
08 Oct 2016 1 Comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics Tags: antiscience left, cranks, GMOs, New Zealand Greens
While most African farms are organic @OxfamNZ @GreenpeaceNZ @SteffanBrowning
06 Oct 2016 3 Comments
in development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, health economics
We Should Not Be Subjecting Children’s Brains To Wi-Fi Screens @drjillstein
04 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
Where is it still illegal to insult religion?
29 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Blasphemy, free speech
#Uber and creative destruction in The Knowledge
21 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, taxi regulation, Uber
I used Uber for the first time over the weekend. My car was towed away and a friend had the app on his phone. We used it to go to the tow away yard to pay the $275 release fee.
One of the things I noticed was the the driver could immediately use his GPS because it was pre-programmed by the booking.
When you book a regular cab, they do not know where you are going until they arrive. This is to stop drivers avoiding picking up short trips. It also means that they must know where they are going rather than waste time programming the GPS. Prior to the GPS, they simply had to know where everything was.
The Knowledge, knowledge of London streets necessary to qualify for a black cab License is so difficult that neurologists study the brains of black cabdrivers to see how they are different from others in memory capacity.
Uber destroyed the Knowledge in a wave of creative destruction by linking the app booking request to GPSs. No diver needs to know where anything because the destination and pickup points are both pre-programmed into their GPS.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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