An Honest Conversation on Gender with Dr. Debra Soh
27 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Thomas J. Sargent on macroeconomics and the crisis 2013
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in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, Jan van Ours, job search and matching, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Blokes are bigger
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left

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
Lisa Lawrence, President, National Council of Women plain wrong on Maori not needing feminism
25 Aug 2020 Leave a comment


Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health and safety, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatal conceit

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
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics

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
in applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global financial crisis (GFC), global warming, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, The fatal conceit


From https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/climate/us-climate-report.amp.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15981393046910&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F11%2F23%2Fclimate%2Fus-climate-report.html
The withering away of the proletariat @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment, top 1%

Adam Smith and religion
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: moral hazard, signaling

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


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