Frank Easterbrook, “The Supreme Court of the United States and Business Litigation”
31 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
.@Greenpeace does not quite understand the tragedy of the commons
29 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, environmental economics, property rights
A tough question on rough justice after the liberation of Belsen
27 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics
Police shootings of Blacks by threat level 2016
26 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - USA Tags: police shootings
Will the trolley problem kill self-drive cars?
26 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in law and economics, transport economics
Self-drive cars currently have a driver behind the wheel who has an impeccable license record and a high tolerance of boredom. The police will speak to him if there is an accident.
Whoever writes the software for self-drive cars that do not have a driver watching over things and being personally liable will be sued for every accident that occurs for the rest of eternity that comes off his coding. Ultimately, there will be accidents where the litigation will be against the writer of the software code. That can never be avoided.
There is criminal liability for the self-drive car software writer which can neither be contracted out of or insured against.
Richard Posner Politics in the Supreme Court
20 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
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Police shootings by threat level 2016
15 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, police shootings
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
Does your opinion change if you know the level of threat by those who are at said to be not attacking police such as whether they had a gun, knife or other weapon or were charging police with more than a few mentally ill people do with or without a toy weapons.
Source: Police shootings 2016 database – Washington Post.
It was a lot easier to analyse this database before the Washington Post removed the data filter that easily told you whether there was an attack in progress or not. That filter was inexplicably removed about a year ago.
The retention of that filter would have helped illustrate the point that the Washington Post conceded when it compiled this database. That was less than 5% of all police shootings are in any way suspicious.
Manus Island queue jumper admits he successfully jumped queue @AmnestyNZ cries torture
15 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia Tags: do gooders, economics of immigration
Amnesty NZ thinks it is torture to go from being a faceless family in a UN refugee camp with little hope to being in the Manus Island immigration detention camp with Australia doing everything it can to get you accepted as a refugee in another country. How many refugees in UN camps have all the resources of the Australian government trying to resettle them? Burma is such a dump the resettlement anywhere in the world is an economic improvement as well.
Source: ‘The torture in my country is transparent, in Australia it is not obvious’.
Another question that must be asked is whether the refugees on Manus Island displace refugees with better claims from within another country’s refugee quota because the Australian government is lobbying for them to be accepted as a refugee.
Boat arrivals do not increase the Australian refugee quota so someone with a better claim is displaced. As arrivals by boat are no longer ever eligible to settle in Australia, this displacement dilemma is moved onto the consciences of 3rd countries.
The purpose of the UN processing of refugees is to ensure those with the most pressing claims for asylum receive refugee status first. Those pushed back in the queue may be at a greater risk of imprisonment, torture and execution than those that arrived in Australia by boat.
Competition policy is about who is quicker to fix problems – Frank Easterbrook
14 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, law and economics
Eric Posner: Twilight of Human Rights Law
13 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Eric Posner
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