John Stossel – Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: The fatal conceit
Stossel: Bernie’s Digital Media Empire
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: regressive left
More from the Blank Slate on the anti-science left
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, health economics, history of economic thought, law and economics Tags: Anti-Science left, IQ
A paradox of patriarchy
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Used to be a hell of a lot of blacksmiths!
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: creative destruction
On auditing racism to see if is racism
19 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: identity politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Women once again are making all the compromises on privacy, safety and opportunity
18 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, property rights Tags: tragedy of the commons
More from Stephen Pinker’s Blank Slate
18 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender gap
Unusual to know exactly who was last to learn of a massive literature! @moturesearch @coughlthom
17 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of love and marriage, gender, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
To the Press Council on Inequality Tower 2018 @toby_etc @XTOTL @MaxRashbrooke @TheSpinoffTV
17 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of information, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, public economics
Two words. Two words would have changed the Inequality Tower from deeply misleading to accurate. Those two words also would have greatly undermined the political narrative in the cartoon of the political powerlessness of ordinary people over housing affordability.
The response of The Spinoff to my complaint was on one aspect and ignored all the others.
The editor ran the line that capital gains taxes is the same as saying comprehensive capital gains tax. You might have been able to run that line a few years ago but not now after the capital gains tax bright line test of 2 years and now 5 years. A five-year bright line is enough to deal with speculation and changes the debate from the lack of a capital gains tax at all to a capital gains tax on the family home or farm after the death of parents and other deeply unpopular political ramifications.
The other missing word was might. It was simply wrong to claim that people will not pay taxes on the sale of their home. They might under current law.
Ironically, editor’s reply was on the day the ban on foreign sales was passed into law showing once again responsiveness of parliament to popular concerns about housing affordability. The same responsiveness to the angst of ordinary voters led to the bright line test of 2 years and now 5 years.
At bottom, if you ask a careful and scrupulous scholar such as Max Rashbrooke to sign onto your comic cartoon, you raise the bar for yourself in terms of factual accuracy in an opinion piece. If he had not co-signed the cartoon, I most likely would never have read it.
This rejoinder is in addition to my attached original complaint to The Spinoff which I also submit to the Press Council.
What does unconscious bias only get cracking after women’s 30th birthday? Employers, we men, bastards all, must be good at unconsciously guessing ages?!
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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