
The Promise and Peril of Fast-Tracking the Coronavirus Vaccine | @WSJ #COVID19
10 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, vaccines
Ancient Rome’s Sanitation System: Centuries Ahead of It’s Time
06 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: Roman empire
Sex matters in health policy
05 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
#COVID19 and the wages of sin; how is the Vice Fund going?
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
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
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics

The Hong Kong Flu Killed 100,000 Americans, But the Economy Didn’t Shut Down | Larry Elder
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Lost on @WHO @Greens @NZGreens nanny state
02 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state

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
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.

Ignaz Semmelweis: The Doctor Who Learned to Wash His Hands
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics
Unemployment rate in Georgia is 40%
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: 2020 presidential election, economics of pandemics, moral hazard, unemployment insurance





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