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Did Nordhaus ignore runaway #globalwarming?
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Friedman (1951) thought the union wage premium was overstated because it can’t be as big as doctors’ extract from occupational licensing
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, occupational regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: barriers to entry, occupational licensing, union power, union wage premium
Did @MasseyUni buckle to Chinese embassy pressure to take down Hong Kong protest posters?
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Steven Pinker: Are guns to blame for America’s homicide rate?
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, gun control
@AmnestyNZ complains despite frequent grant of asylum to uncooperative refugees on minimal information
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
The Mechanics of a Further Referendum on Brexit Revisited: Questions for the New Parliament
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
A further referendum on Brexit is central to many parties’ general election pledges. Today, the Constitution Unit launches a new report examining how such a vote might come about and what form it might take. This updates previous work conducted last year. In this post, adapted from the report’s final chapter, Alan Renwick, Meg Russell, Lisa James and Jess Sargeant sum up the key conclusions. They find that, though it would not be without difficulties, a vote on Johnson’s deal may be the quickest option and the one most likely to command public legitimacy.
The Constitution Unit’s latest report, The Mechanics of a Further Referendum on Brexit Revisited: Questions for the New Parliament, is published today. It significantly updates our previous analysis of the mechanics of a further Brexit referendum, exploring the circumstances that might lead to a further referendum on Brexit, and the form that such a referendum…
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Parliament staying its hand on a 2004 private member’s bill didn’t stop @NZHumanRights from amending the law! It stands as regent over our parliament, dealing out victories that cannot be won on the floor of Parliament through normal democratic means?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Michael Shellenberger: the lost souls of the green movement — The Brendan O’Neill Show
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-intellectualism, anti-market bias, expressive voting, nuclear energy, pessimism, regressive left, solar power, wind power
Badge of honour
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in administration, defence economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: regressive left
Why so much rule breaking?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order
10 things you should know about the London Bridge attacker and “early release”
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
No time can be afforded in 2019 to respect the dead. Not when there’s an election at stake, and the tantalising prospect of scoring cheap political points winks coyly at you from a special advisor’s email. So it is that, within 24 hours after the killings by Usman Khan at London Bridge, politicians have lined up in descending order of deplorability to exploit the tragedy for their own ends. The Prime Minister obviously went first, leaping in front of Sky cameras last night to claim:
” I have long argued that it is a mistake to serious and violent criminals out of prison early and it is very important that we get out of that habit and that we enforce the appropriate sentences for dangerous criminals, especially for terrorists that the public want to see.”
This, one presumes, is a nod to his well-publicised manifesto pledges to “toughen up sentences”…
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The wages of sin had a good run @USAMViceFund
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness
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