What Was Hygiene Like On Pirate Ships?
01 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, transport economics
#OTD
01 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, crime and punishment, law and order, police shootings

.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

I have a dream
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

Growing up in the crack cocaine epidemic led to parents encouraging ways of talking and acting by inner-city kids; pure survival skills known as street capital
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA

From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00181-016-1160-y and https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/working-papers/2014-working-papers/wp-1302r-human-capital-in-the-inner-city
Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia?
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Malaysia, racial discrimination, Singapore
Blasphemy at the Old Bailey (BBC TV, 1977). A brilliant reenactment of the Gay News trial
16 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, television Tags: free speech
The Exact Moment Many Realized The Left Had Gone Insane | Yasmine Mohammed | Rubin Report
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, television Tags: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, political correctness, regressive left
Thomas Schelling on the mechanics of nuclear terrorism
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, industrial organisation, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: nuclear terrorism, nuclear weapons
New Rule: Sex Monster | Real Time with @BillMaher
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The 1619 Project’s Pulitzer | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show]
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: academic bias, media bias, political correctness, regressive left
Is Japan’s Criminal Justice System Very Efficient or Deeply Flawed?
09 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, Japan
Why Japan’s conviction rate is 99%
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, Japan
Why Genghis Khan Has 16 Million Living Relatives
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, law and economics Tags: economics of fertility, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Were there Police in Ancient Rome?
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Roman empire
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