Campaign Ad: Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, election campaigns, environmental economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, unemployment, unions, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: 2020 presidential election, child poverty, crime and punishment, family poverty, law and order
“The Recession of 2007 to ?” by Robert E. Lucas – Friedman Forum Lecture 2012
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
#OTD #COVID19
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment

Official @greenpeaceusa estimated cost of doing nothing about #globalwarming #climateemergency!
23 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Adam Smith and religion
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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JPE 1988
Gordon Tullock on an accidental economic miracle
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: South Korea, The Great Escape

Batting blind on unconscious bias! @NZHumanRights relies on newspapers, blogs and YouTube clips!!
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination

The dead will be many from #COVID19’s 40% cut in new medical staff
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration, economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Crime, Violence, and Progress With Steven Pinker (Ep.9)
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
Thomas Sowell – Wealth Disparity
14 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, pessimism bias


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