
#COVID19 #JacindaGap
21 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, economics of pandemics

The wages of sin in the #COVID19 reallocation shock; how is the vice fund doing?
21 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics

From https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/VICEX:US
USA Mutuals Vitium Global Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in equity securities of companies that derive a significant portion of their revenues from a group of vice industries that includes the alcoholic beverages, defense/aerospace, gaming and tobacco industries. The Fund will concentrate at least 25% of its net assets in this group of four vice industries.
Most saved or paid down debts with #COVID19 transfers; 15 percent mostly spent it
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, health economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics
At the depths of the #COVID19 depression
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, regressive left, The fatal conceit

Andrew Neil interviews Anders Tegnell – a second wave and what Sweden got right | SpectatorTV
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation


#COVID19 #JacindaGap on social distancing under alert level 2
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, economics of pandemics

Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
18 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
17 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Internalised ageism and ableism to expect others to remember politically correct pronouns
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment

Deaf People Hearing Sound for the FIRST Time
08 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: The Great Escape





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