And the adjustments are huge. @gabriel_zucman @KClausing pic.twitter.com/bJNgLH1mel
— Johannes Becker (@YohannesBecker) November 22, 2019
Class war cancelled @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax havens
Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism
Nanny-in-Chief
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Global Decarbonization Update
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
The figure above provides an update (to 2018) on global decarbonization rates (that is, rate of reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels divided by global GDP, in 2011$ PPP).
- Annual decarbonization 2000-2018 = 1.6%
- Implied by a 50% reduction (from 2000 emissions) by 2030 = 8.4%
- Implied by an 80% reduction (from 2000 emissions) by 2050 = 6.0%
For details on methods and significance, see The Climate Fix (2010).
War on Poverty has been won @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance
Why our oil addiction is not just about cars and planes | @FT #globalwarming #climateemergency @greenpeaceusa
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
Israel 2020a: Polling day
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
It is election day in Israel. Again. I probably have not followed an Israeli election so loosely since some time before the 1990s. If I am feeling this indifferent, I can only imagine how the average Israeli voter feels.
Polling throughout the period since the last election–only last September–shows little sign of any fundamental change in the political deadlock that has been a feature since the elections of last April. That is why I put “2020a” in the tile above. It is not inevitable that there will be a “2020b” election, but it is unclear how it will be avoided.
The potential governing scenarios are about the same now as they were when I last wrote, in November. Maybe one of these will happen this time, or maybe today’s results will surprise and the bargaining situation will be markedly different.
The lineup of parties is pretty much the same as
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Behind on my bible bashers bashing
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Age of Enlightenment
#OTD #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
Tankie: The origins of an epithet
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
A common term used in online left-wing discourses is ‘tankie’. It has been used to describe those who are self-identified Marxist-Leninists and those who defend ‘actually existing socialism’ in its various guises (such as the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, Vietnam and North Korea). As an extension of this, ‘tankie’ has also been used to describe people who defend regimes in alliance with Russia and China in the twenty-first century, primarily concerning the Assad government in Syria nowadays.
The connotation of the term alludes to the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1979 (as well as martial law Poland in 1980), suggesting that those who supported the Soviet Union in these incursions were endorsing the use of tanks to crush their opposition (supposed counter-revolutionaries, the bourgeoisie, imperialists, etc). Although China opposed both the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
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