Here is one excerpt: What few appreciate is that the overregulation of housing has blocked a classic American path: moving to a higher-wage part of the country to secure a better life. A paper by the economists Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag shows that housing costs now routinely outweigh wage gains: While janitors and waiters do indeed […]
Bryan Caplan on YIMBY in the NYT
Bryan Caplan on YIMBY in the NYT
12 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, regulation, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
‘Goes Beyond the Limits’: Judge Throws Out Blue City’s Climate Case Against Oil Giants
12 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
…simply a way to get in the back door what they cannot get in the front door,” Brown wrote in the ruling.
‘Goes Beyond the Limits’: Judge Throws Out Blue City’s Climate Case Against Oil Giants
Is France about to demonstrate “ideal” semi-presidentialism in action?
12 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: France
The outcome of the French assembly election of 2024 appears to have set up a situation that could be described as the “ideal” way that semi-presidential systems are meant to operate, based on how such governance models were articulated by their original theorists.
Is France about to demonstrate “ideal” semi-presidentialism in action?
Antifa Radicals Elected to the French and European Parliaments
10 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
For many years, I have testified and written about Antifa and its growing anti-free speech philosophy. Some Democratic leaders have embraced this violent movement, which continues to gain strength on campuses and its cities across the nation. It is also a global movement. That is reflected in the alarming election of Antifa candidates to the […]
Antifa Radicals Elected to the French and European Parliaments
Energy, Business Groups Ask Supreme Court To Stop California From Forcing EVs On the Rest of America
09 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: constitutional law, federalism
Numerous trade associations are asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that effectively allowed California to push electric vehicles (EVs) on the rest of the U.S.
Energy, Business Groups Ask Supreme Court To Stop California From Forcing EVs On the Rest of America
“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision
08 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in The Hill on the over-wrought reaction to the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States. Commentators seemed to compete for the most alarmist accounts from court-sanctioned death squads to political assassinations to the death of democracy. From the coverage of the immunity decision, one would think that the Madisonian […]
“A Death Squad Ruling”: The Press and Pundits Make Wild Claims in the Wake of the Court’s Immunity Decision
The Ghahraman judgment
06 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment
The 60 paragraph decision by Judge Jelas is an interesting read. Some extracts:
The Ghahraman judgment
Finally a great housing package
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Chris Bishop has announced changes to housing laws which will make a huge difference to housing affordability. Almost every expert has said that to reduce pressure on house prices you need to both build up and build out. The NIMBYs oppose building up and the Greenies opposes building out. Phil Rayford in 2017 had some […]
Finally a great housing package
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
05 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: British constitutional law
The Labour Party has won a resounding victory over the Conservatives with exit polls suggesting that they could win as many as 405 seats. While results are still coming in, Rishi Sunak has already conceded to Sir Keir Starmer. So what comes next? Sunak will likely go to the Palace sometime on Friday to tender […]
The King, Keir Starmer, and the new Labour government
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East-aka The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
03 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Japan, World War II
Most people will have heard of the Nuremberg Trials, but few have heard of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), or Tokyo War Crimes Trial. The Nuremberg trials are often criticized because of the low number of convictions of Nazi War criminals. The conviction rate of International Military Tribunal for the Far […]
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East-aka The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
No, President Biden, the Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits on the Presidency
03 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election
President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the presidential immunity decision by the Supreme Court. While pledging that he will defend the rule of law, President Biden misrepresented what that law is in the aftermath of Trump v. United States. While we have often discussed false constitutional claims by […]
No, President Biden, the Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits on the Presidency
Why Britain Lost The Irish War of Independence (4K Documentary)
02 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Ireland
Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, 2024 presidential election
Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court decision on Friday in Fischer v. U.S. to reject hundreds of charges in January 6th cases for the obstruction of legal proceedings. For many cases, that will leave relatively minor offenses like trespass or unlawful entry. It is only the latest blow to efforts […]
Insurrection-Lite: The Supreme Court Downsizes the “Insurrection” to Largely Trespassing
Beyond crazy
01 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: free speech, Germany, political correctness, regressive left
Thepublica reports: A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists. However, despite DNA and WhatsApp evidence, eight of the nine men […]
Beyond crazy
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
30 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: British constitutional law
In 2021 the then Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC MP cited the principle of legality as an example of an aspect of public law that might ‘take on a life of [its] own, and lead to the courts overreaching.’ In the simplest terms, the principle of legality is a common law rule of statutory interpretation […]
Hayley Hooper: Historical Origins of the ‘Principle of Legality’ in British Public Law
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