
More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises – Steven E. Landsburg
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, economics of religion, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Doctor Explains How to Prepare for a Pandemic | @WIRED
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Why new diseases keep appearing in China @NZHumanRights @voxdotcom
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
So true
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Dunning-Kruger effect, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
By @WHO mission to China
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics

Nothing more that a severe flu season is ahead plus a lot of panicky overreactions
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics

The wages of sin since 1926 has been 2.5% per year @jamespeshaw @NZGreens @Greens @greenpeaceusa @mfe_news
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand

From https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/21/sin-stocks-outperform-personal-finance-sin-stocks.html#3b5f89954cfd and http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/mkacperc/public_html/sin.pdf
The 1918 Pandemic: why the Spanish Flu was the Deadliest Flu in History
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, health economics, war and peace Tags: World War I






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