
How the marketplace for ideas deals with Nazis when do-gooders aren’t making things far worse with censorship
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
Theodore Dalrymple: “Como pensar sobre a pobreza”
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: moral psychology, political psychology
Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: law and order, moral psychology
After only 227 pages does @NZComCom reveal its criteria for markets predisposed to collusion
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, competition law, oligopoly

The old hippies at @NZComCom force Harold Demsetz turn in his grave by using profits to assess competition. So 1960s. Died after his 1973 paper.
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law

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




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