Property Rights: Negative Externalities and Social Cost
10 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase Tags: Coase theorem
What happens after ISIS falls?
03 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Middle-East politics, war on terror
Did @NZGreens polling get a bump this week off the back of social justice wedge politics?
02 Aug 2017 Leave a comment
So @Greenpeace only supports free speech when it is sued for lying @GreenpeaceNZ
31 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, law and economics, politics - USA
Source: ExxonSecrets Factsheet.
Banned from r/ProtectAndServe
18 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, politics - USA
The American police subreddit did not want to know that there were a few bad apples in their rank ranks despite the overall good news about the use of lethal force.
Blacks are not shot dead out of proportion but there are more incidents of excessive force which is nonlethal. Racists are cowards. There is excessive force under the colour of authority but they chicken out when there are real consequences and serious investigations.
Bombs May Not Defeat ISIS But Maybe The Internet Will | The New York Times
08 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: Middle-East politics, war on terror
Sarah Haider on islam apologists, islam’s bloody history, and Ben Affleck (Rubin Report)
03 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion, political correctness
Why won’t Trump use his best argument for his travel ban?
03 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, politics - USA, war and peace
Trump promised to ban all Muslim immigration. He broke that promise on his first day of office by issuing a 90-day suspension of visa processing against Iran and 5 fail states or war zones already identified in Congressional legislation as countries of concern in terms of vetting.
Trump then said he was going to introduce enhanced vetting for migration from these Muslim majority countries. Clearly, his promise to ban all Muslim migrants is one of the many promises he has broken. Instead, he focused on a legitimate difference with the previous administration on the stringency of vetting from countries hostile to the USA and from failed states.
If the courts are to chill free speech by holding candidates to what they say in the campaign trail before they take the oath of office, they are equally bound to notice that Trump broke his flagship campaign promise to ban all Muslim immigrants immediately on entering office.
The appeal courts for many years after the 9/11 attacks upheld sweeping restrictions on male migrants from 24-muslim majority countries and North Korea. They were fingerprinted and photographed at the border; nationals of these countries already within the USA were required to attend Immigration and Customs enforcement offices to be fingerprinted and photographed on pain of deportation.
Conclusive evidence that Amazon takeover is pro-competitive
27 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: antitrust economics, competition law
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