
Criminals released after DNA testing started are 17% less likely to reoffend! @sst_nz (A greater chance of getting caught is instant rehabilitation)
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

@NZComCom’s petrol pricing report is an ode to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm of decades and decades gone by
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law

I don’t see the variation here that the @NZComCom does (except that long thin countries are at the top)
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: competition law

Despite itself, @nzcomcom reveals rampant secret price discounting in the petrol cartel/oligopoly
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: cartel enforcement, cartel theory, competition law

Doug Allen hinting that gun laws should apply only to men
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: criminal deterrence, gun control, law and order

@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

DNA testing makes criminals vote with their feet @sst_nz
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

The Psychology of Victim Group Rights | Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: political correctness
Justice Thomas on the establishment of religion
19 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA
Transequity didn’t compare prison rates with the general population in 2015 (unlike in 2011 report) @aniobrien @HJJoyceEcon
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics

From https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF and for 2011 comparisons, see https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2019/05/08/why-do-transwomen-go-to-prison-40-times-as-much-as-women-in-the-usa-in-2011/
Acemoglu and Robinson on inclusive institutions and American exceptionalism
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

A high or low level of stranger violence compared to the general population and to women?
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics
Acemoglu and Robinson on comparative economic development
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism





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