Steven Pinker: Are guns to blame for America’s homicide rate?
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, gun control
@AmnestyNZ complains despite frequent grant of asylum to uncooperative refugees on minimal information
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Parliament staying its hand on a 2004 private member’s bill didn’t stop @NZHumanRights from amending the law! It stands as regent over our parliament, dealing out victories that cannot be won on the floor of Parliament through normal democratic means?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

Why so much rule breaking?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order
Is Economic Growth a Moral Imperative? Lecture by Tyler Cowen
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
@AmnestyNZ claims claims Manus island asylum seekers “can never leave” PNG. 42% returned home so Amnesty complains about that too
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: PNG, regressive left

Former Secret Service Agent Explains How to Protect a President | Tradecraft | @WIRED
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: law and order
Zingales: … would you be in favor of breaking up Standard Oil? Cowen: If Standard Oil were giving away the oil for free, no.
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
Pablo Escobar’s Millions Found in Old Drums
29 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Columbia
Is this re-imprisonment high or low? @sst_nz @justspeaknz @NZJusticeIdeas @actionstations
29 Nov 2019 Leave a comment

Gender gap in chosiness
29 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender Tags: dating market, martial search

“Us” isn’t inclusive! No room for the superiority of Western values: democracy is better, free speech is better, equality of the sexes is better.
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left





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