Bhattacharya on Covid censorship

21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics Tags:

A week ago Jay Bhattacharya gave a great talk at the weekly Stanford Classical Liberalism workshop. (Link in case the embed doesn’t work.) He detailed the story of government+media Covid censorship, along with the dramatic injunction in the Missouri v. Biden case. The discovery in that case alone, detailing how the administration used the threat of…

Bhattacharya on Covid censorship

Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic

12 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics

The Centers for Disease Control reports that 645,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses from 1999 -2021. As the CDC points out, the problem has hit in three waves: a rise in prescription opioid overdose deaths starting in the late 1990s; a rise heroin overdose deaths starting in 2010; and what appears to be an ongoing…

Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic

Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?

10 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: , ,

Does Government Debt Matter Anymore? | Perspectives On Policy

02 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics

Price Discrimination saves lives: Glaxo’s AIDS drugs

02 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, health economics

Link to article: Some 28 shipments [of low-priced AIDS drugs] were diverted from African countries to Paris and Brussels, then moved to Antwerp, where the customs officers noticed something was amiss. The drugs then moved into the normal wholesale chain and were sold at European prices – up to £3.80 a tablet instead of the…

Price Discrimination saves lives: Glaxo’s AIDS drugs

Behind on my vegan blogging

23 Jul 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags:

#COVID19

11 Jul 2023 Leave a comment

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Medicinal purposes only

06 May 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of regulation, health economics Tags:

The Great Escape

20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics Tags: , ,

A fact-checked debate about legal weed

08 Mar 2023 Leave a comment

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

Most Unusual Victorian Era Jobs

11 Feb 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, health and safety, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality

Szasz Podcast

02 Feb 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics Tags:

I just did a new podcast with Aaron Olson on the late great Thomas Szasz. Aaron is well-versed in my notorious article, “The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness… 166 more words

Szasz Podcast

What Life Was Like In Medieval castles

30 Jan 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, health economics

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