Prize lecture: David Card, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences …
30 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment
Review of “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” by Jennifer Burns
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 592 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: Nov 2023 Released two weeks ago, Jennifer Burns’s “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” is the most significant biography of Friedman ever published. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She […]
Review of “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” by Jennifer Burns
DAVID FARRAR: Luxon is absolutely right
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
1 News reports: Christopher Luxon says he was told by some Kiwis on the campaign trail they “didn’t know” the difference between Waka Kotahi, Te Pūkenga and Te Whatu Ora. Speaking to Breakfast, the incoming prime minister said having English first on government agencies will “make sure” people “understand” what agencies are and what they…
DAVID FARRAR: Luxon is absolutely right
Treaty pledge to secure funding is contentious – but is Peters being pursued by a lynch mob after making bribery claims?
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
TV3 political editor Jenna Lynch was among the corps of political reporters who bridled, when Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters told them what he thinks of them (which is not much). She was unabashed about letting her audience know she had bridled. More usefully, she drew attention to something which rankles the combative Peters. It’s […]
Treaty pledge to secure funding is contentious – but is Peters being pursued by a lynch mob after making bribery claims?
Enron All Over Again: Wind & Solar Industries Become Total Financial Train Wrecks
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Ponzi schemes last only as long as their creators can draw in fresh suckers. The wind and solar industries are fast running out of suckers. America’s Enron set the standards early, parading manufactured financial statements that never reflected the fact that Enron was a worthless house of cards. Gullible investors kept piling in, which helped […]
Enron All Over Again: Wind & Solar Industries Become Total Financial Train Wrecks
Thousands of Students at Warwick Uni “Forced to Go Vegan”
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, Marxist economics Tags: vegetarianism
By Paul Homewood h/t Willie Soon. Maybe the vast majority of sensible students will finally wake up to the idiot fringe, who are making them all look idiots. I would suggest a Bacon Sandwichathon, where they all bring bacon sandwiches into the canteen, and eat them in front of the sad little […]
Thousands of Students at Warwick Uni “Forced to Go Vegan”
Censorship in science: a new paper and analysis
29 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Well, a paper criticizing the “woke” aspects of science has finally appeared in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, though peer-reviewed critiques of scientific censorship or ideological pressure have appeared in the Journal of Controversial Ideas (a push for judging science on merit rather than ideology), and in the Skeptical Inquirer (an explication of how evolutionary biology […]
Censorship in science: a new paper and analysis
Claim: The Cuban Economy is a Model for Successful Green Degrowth
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, Marxist economics
Green British academic pushing a non GDP measure of social progress which gives a high score to Cuba.
Claim: The Cuban Economy is a Model for Successful Green Degrowth
Follow the Climate Money Updated
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters
Why climate-finance ‘flows’ are falling short of $100bn pledge is an informative article from CarbonBrief. Excerpts below in italics followed by a comment from Bjorn Lomborg. One of the biggest and most contentious issues in climate politics is the provision of money to help poorer countries cut emissions and protect themselves from climate impacts. In […]
Follow the Climate Money Updated
Our latest department and its social-justice obscurantism
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Last year the University of Chicago established a new department, The Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity (RDI). The vote for this department by the Council of the University Senate was overwhelmingly positive. This is the mission statement on its homepage: Now the first thing you notice is that this statement is laden with the…
Our latest department and its social-justice obscurantism
Freer Indian reservations prosper more
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles
Several disciplines in social sciences have shown that institutions that promote cooperation facilitate mutually beneficial exchanges and generate prosperity. Drawing on these insights, this paper develops a Reservation Economic Freedom Index that classifies institutions on a sample of Indian reservations concerning whether these intuitions will enhance the prosperity of Indians residing on these reservations. The…
Freer Indian reservations prosper more
Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Net Zero electricity taxes and levies are set to cost British consumers almost £100 billion over the next six years, according to the latest official figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The post Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years
#endoil??!
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
The new government and the Reserve Bank
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: monetary policy
But first a correction. As I noted on Twitter and very briefly on the post itself on Saturday, it seems that the gist of my post on Friday was wrong. The repeal of Labour’s tobacco de-nicotinisation legislation – whatever motivated the parties that championed the change – will leave the flow of tobacco excise revenue […]
The new government and the Reserve Bank
More scary antisemitism in NYC high-school students
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
I never thought I’d live to see the day where a headline like this not only appears, but isn’t that unusual. And the pro-Israel action that got this teacher into trouble is pretty innocuous! The author and owner of the website, Jonathan Turley, is a professor at George Washington University Law School, a prolific author,…
More scary antisemitism in NYC high-school students
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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