
How many lockdowns are one too many? #COVID19 op-ed in @DomPost
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Stoners don’t like to pay tax nor like greentape @nzdrug
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: black markets, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From DomPost 7 August 20
Richard Epstein on the first amendment
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, Richard Epstein Tags: constitution law, free speech
David Seymour’s adjournment speech 2020
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, economics of pandemics, regressive left
These foster parents have a big heart
05 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: child abuse

Freedom, Friedman, & Family Trajectory: David Friedman – Blue Frontiers Podcast E09
05 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics
So keeping the marijuana ban in place for under 20s will magically reduce teenage cannabis use?! @nzdrug
04 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit

Younger people won’t recognize the names of these winner take all, enduring natural monopolies
04 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit

The IQ Taboo | Glenn Loury & Amy Wax
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Gender and aboriginal imprisonment @Greens
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left

Peaceful arsonists!?
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, regressive left

More rubbish Yes Case arguments @nzdrug. Youth can still buy from gangs. No reliable data on youth use. Demand curves slop downwards too.
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit


Yet another reason why legal cannabis shops will not out-compete the gangs @NZDrug! Out of the way locations
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: anti-market bias, marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences


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