Steve Davis on #COVID19 as a reallocation shock

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of information, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: ,

From https://bfi.uchicago.edu/podcast/episode-3-the-case-for-optimism/

#COVID19 #OTD

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#COVID19

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The Promise and Peril of Fast-Tracking the Coronavirus Vaccine | @WSJ #COVID19

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The Great Escape

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Ancient Rome’s Sanitation System: Centuries Ahead of It’s Time

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Sex matters in health policy

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From https://www.womens-health.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Womens_Health_Strategy_A4_web.pdf

#COVID19 and the wages of sin; how is the Vice Fund going?

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economics of regulation, 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.

Social distancing rules are for the little people not @JacindaArdern

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The Hong Kong Flu Killed 100,000 Americans, But the Economy Didn’t Shut Down | Larry Elder

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Lost on @WHO @Greens @NZGreens nanny state

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The Great Escape

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#COVID19 #OTD

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Steven J. Davis And Lee Ohanian: Unemployment, The Stock Market And Our Economic Future

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by Jim Rose in economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: , ,

Kaupapa Māori indigenous knowledge-based econometrics is surprisingly sophisticated for pre-Age of Enlightenment intuitive knowledge that also thought the earth was flat! Academic rent seeking/tokenism to win research grants?

28 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of education, health economics, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking

… (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.

I tuhi a Rōpiha i ētahi pūrongo i ‘Te Ao Hou’, ā, i āwhina atu hoki ia ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa a te maheni nei i ōna tau tuatahi (TTR 2000:188). / Rōpiha wrote articles for ‘Te Ao Hou’, and he also helped guide the magazine’s policies in its early years.

kaupapa Māori

1. Māori approach, Māori topic, Māori customary practice, Māori institution, Māori agenda, Māori principles, Māori ideology – a philosophical doctrine, incorporating the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of Māori society.

 

From https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323285375_Inequity_in_dialysis_related_practices_and_outcomes_in_AotearoaNew_Zealand_A_Kaupapa_Maori_analysis

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