Are hearing eviction proceedings in the business continuity plans of courts for #COVID19 lockdown? Landlords won’t evict otherwise good tenants who miss 2 payments?
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - Australia, property rights
The gender gap in shallowness
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender Tags: dating market
#plasticbagfascism @mfe_news @NZGreens @Greenpeace @eugeniesage
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Evolutionary Genetics of Honor killings
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Edward Prescott on the #GFC
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: real business cycle theory, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
Fossil Fuelled Future: How On Earth Do They Expect Wind & Sunbeams To Power Us?
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
In their sillier moments, renewable energy zealots pontificate about the end of fossil fuels, to be inevitably replaced by wind and solar (albeit, these days with the addition of $trillions worth of mythical mega-batteries).
No country has ever powered itself on wind and solar alone; no country ever will.
Instead, modern economies will continue to utilise thermal power and the more sensible ones, nuclear power.
Paul Driessen begs the question of how on earth they expect us to enjoy the benefits of reliable and affordable electricity by banishing fossil fuels, altogether.
How exactly do they plan to replace fossil fuels?
Watts Up With That?
Paul Driessen
16 March 2020
Berkeley, CA, Takoma Park, MD and other cities; California, Connecticut, New York, Virginia and other states; Germany, England and other countries; the European Union – all plan to banish oil, natural gas and coal within 10, 20 or 30 years. A number of…
View original post 1,420 more words
The payoff of avoiding a #COVID19 pandemic
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of natural disasters, health economics, macroeconomics
Robert Barro on Rare Events
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, financial economics, great depression, great recession, macroeconomics
The dangers of inaccurate statistics
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, monetary economics, unemployment
What is new and true in efficiency wage theory?
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics
From Y. Weiss et al. (eds.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment
Recent Comments