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So true

01 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in poverty and inequality, Rawls and Nozick Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment

Charles Murray on Coming Apart

29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: Charles Murray

The Spirit Level is plain dodgy and inept in massaging the data too

28 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics, poverty and inequality

#1 🍒-picking.

In the Spirit Level, some countries are excluded from the analysis without justification. When including these countries and using the latest estimates available, the core findings of the book disappear. [2/5] pic.twitter.com/9yeTYcV1jn
— Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦 (@nicolas_sommet) September 27, 2018

So why is the Spirit Level still widely and uncritically cited (see below)? I’m not sure… A political bias, maybe. Anyway, it makes me feel that science is def not self-correcting here.

More to come soon.

🍒 🍒 🍒 End of thread 🍒 🍒 🍒 pic.twitter.com/zWkgZU6ACP
— Nicolas Sommet 🇺🇦 (@nicolas_sommet) September 27, 2018

Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Why Swedes Vote for Populists

20 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, law and economics, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: populism, Sweden, voter demographics

Veteran lefties (disappointed?) to discover NZ Rich listers are working rich

16 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in entrepreneurship, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality

At https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2017.1354907?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Down and out in America

15 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

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UPDATED Sheree’s support: Press council complaint against @radionz; @GraemeEdgeler @keith_ng

14 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform

Hadn't realised the new government had cut a third from WFF for sole parents earning $980pf with one kid, and abolished the accommodation supplement for people earning that and paying $500pw rent. But if you're right that they have, I'll definitely apologise to RNZ.
— Graeme Edgeler (@GraemeEdgeler) September 14, 2018

Henry Hazlett explains Marxism

08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Henry Hazlett

Quote by Henry Hazlitt: “The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up …” https://t.co/oafrp5jNkz pic.twitter.com/UgJs5wCwUR

— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 23, 2018

Imran Khan is bad for Pakistan’s democracy | IN 60 SECONDS

07 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Pakistan, war against terror

Why does misogyny and the unconscious bias wait until age 30?

07 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

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Thomas Piketty finally made a positive contribution to public policy debates

06 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, poverty and inequality, Public Choice

From http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf

Thomas Sowell on Facts and Free Speech (Pt. 1)

27 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Thomas Sowell

Using ethnographic research to understand barriers to opportunity

26 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty

Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage is Hurting the Workers It’s Intending to Help

22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

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