America’s elderly prisoner boom | The Economist
04 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: ageing society
Good @LibDemAus chart @nzdrug @familyfirstnz @TaxpayersUnion
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, law and order, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Minor Parties Vote Compass, Australian 2016 Federal Election
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
The ABC Vote Compass is a good tool for orientating yourself in the political spectrum but only showed the three major parties, as did Fairfax’s YourVote; the third party iSideWith did a bit better, including the other parties with elected Senators: Family First and the Liberal Democrats. Meanwhile, the international Political Compass, for some reason, included Katter’s Australian Party.
So, what about all the other minor parties? Well, here is my attempt at putting them on the graph:
Where possible, the results are based on an official email response from the party, otherwise, it is based on policy documents and other stated positions.
Being a classical liberal, I support both economic and social freedom, so am interested in the overall liberalism rating of parties, the forward diagonal, from the most control-leaning (bottom-left) to freedom-leaning (top-right).
In this post, I provide the calculated results for the parties, presented…
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Detroiters against free trees?
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
In 2014, a nonprofit tried to give thousands of trees to Detroit residents, but many declined the offer. A recent study attempts to explain why so many people would turn down “free” trees. As the New York Timesexplains, it wasn’t because they dislike trees.
Deborah Westbrook, a lifelong resident of Detroit, would love a tree in front of her home. “With a green tree in front of my house,” she said, “and me looking at the green leaves, knowing that the tree and sun were mixing together to give off the oxygen we breathe? I would be proud. A tree in front of my house would not only help with the air, but it would help with me.” Nonetheless, when representatives from a local nonprofit came to plant trees on her block five years ago, Ms. Westbrook said no. So did more than 1,800 Detroiters — a quarter of all…
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Walter Williams: Up From the Projects
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination
What caused the Cambrian explosion? | The Economist
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: evolution
Steven Pinker Explains the ‘Cognitive Niche’
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
The Enigma of Germany’s Wartime Economy – WW2 – 022 – January 26 1940
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
A straight forward nail in the coffin of Keynesian macroeconomics
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
Tullock Lecture: Richard Epstein – regulating wages and hours in the age of Uber
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, law and economics, minimum wage, Richard Epstein, unions Tags: employment law, union power
When gays hated the very idea of same sex marriage. Should gays be forgiven for opposing gay marriage? No one on the right ever is. Why?
03 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: gay marriage, political correctness, regressive left
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