Taking It From The Top: Though more than a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War, there remains a deeply-embedded fraction of the New Zealand state apparatus which continues to regard New Zealand as simply a loyal cog in a much larger and more powerful imperial machine. Like their forebears, these…
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
Lord Liverpool’s Ghost.
07 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Science
07 Aug 2023 1 Comment
in economics of education Tags: conjecture and refutation, philosophy of science

New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

I have a new working paper with Phil Magness. In this paper, we show a major methodological inconsistency in the estimates of income inequality produced by Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez for the period from 1917 to 2020. The error is not just a level error but also a trend error. Below is the image […]
New Working Paper: A Methodologically Consistent Measure of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917 to 2020
India has a criminal infested parliament
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: India

Creative destruction
05 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture

Germany’s Grandeur – Analyzing the War Effort I THE GREAT WAR Week 106
05 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment

Confused about the grand wind and solar ‘transition’? It’s a sensation experienced by any rational thinker. None of what’s put forward makes even the vaguest sense, once the critical faculties are applied. Jude Clemente selects 5 subjects as a subset and does just that in the piece below. 5 Things I Truly Don’t Understand About […]
Dazed & Confused: 5 Things About the ‘Inevitable Energy Transition’ That Make No Sense
The true nature of American polarization
04 Aug 2023 1 Comment
Adding marital status to the mix, the GOP advantage among married men shoots up to 20 points (59% Republican to 39% Democrat) and shrinks among unmarried men to just 7 points (52% Republican to 45% Democrat). But what most people don’t know, including everyone who works at Politico apparently, is that among married women, Republicans still maintain […]
The true nature of American polarization
Making History in the Wrong Way: The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in USA Today on second indictment of former President Donald Trump. While many are celebrating the charges, the implications for free speech are chilling. While Smith did not charge incitement or insurrection (or seditious conspiracy), commentators (and Special Counsel Jack Smith) portrayed the case as holding Trump accountable for the actual…
Making History in the Wrong Way: The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech
JERRY COYNE: New Zealand government spends $2.7 million to test already-debunked indigenous theory about the effect of lunar phases on plants
04 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
We also shouldn’t be debating removing GST from food
03 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
There are certain policies that make little sense from an economic perspective. As I noted yesterday, rent controls are one such policy. Another policy the government should not be considering is removing GST from food (and yet it seems that they are, and it is a policy position for Te Pāti Māori as well). This…
We also shouldn’t be debating removing GST from food
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