Reading Between The Lines: Why Girls’ Superior Reading Skills May Be Lowering Their Future Salaries
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
@nzlabour’s cunning plan to reduce power prices
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: price controls
The Last Video Store
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in industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Acemoglu and Robinson on West Africa after decolonisation
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Africa, economics of colonialism
How Nordhaus responded to #globalwarming skeptics
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in econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, philosophy of science
Mankiw on wealth taxes
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in applied price theory, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
@Greens @RichardDiNatale wins first prize for the most implausible policy connection
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - USA
Guardian smears Israel with false claim of 50 ‘racist laws’
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A Sept. 25th op-ed at the Guardian (“Ousting Netanyahu isn’t enough for Israel’s Palestinians. They want equality”) by former +972 contributor Amjad Iraqi included the claim that Israel has “dozens of discriminatory laws”.
Iraqi’s claim that Israeli Arabs are afforded less rights than Jews links to a report by the radical-left NGO Adalah (where he works as its advocacy director) alleging the existence of at least “50 racist laws” in Israel. However, CAMERA and other watchdog groups have refuted Adalah’s claims of racism – a term used so carelessly by the NGO that even an Israeli public health law requiring that parents vaccinate their children isincluded on their list of “racist laws”.
Among the most comprehensive analyses of the “50 racist laws” claim was conducted by the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS), a policy and research organization dedicated to preserving Israel as a democratic Jewish state.
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Big policy choices should be for politicians: that is their job
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
A post this morning doing something rare: praising National, or more particularly their finance spokesman Paul Goldsmith.
There was an article on Stuff yesterday, and in the Dominion-Post this morning, in which Goldsmith is quoted as suggesting that politicians should set policy. In this particular case, National is proposing that the Governor of the Reserve Bank – unelected, and in effect appointed by other unelected people – should not get to set regulatory policy around banks all by himself, but that politicians – in this case the Minister of Finance – should do so.
The article begins in a rather overwrought style
National Party Finance Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith wants to shake-up banking, by ripping a scab that hasn’t been touched for 30 years.
Goldsmith has called into question the independence of the Reserve Bank, responsible for setting interest rates and regulating banking.
But read on a bit and, of…
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Is there a country where the left isn’t losing elections to clowns? @uklabour has @jeremycorbyn as an excuse but elsewhere…
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Does Ardern see the distinction
02 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
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