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My @NZHerald op-ed on @RossMcKitrick’s temperature contingent #carbontax #climateemergency @jamespeshaw @mfe_news
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in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: carbon tax
Stephen Williamson on low interest rates
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in business cycles, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, population economics
J. K. Rowling demonized for defending another woman who considers trans-women different from “biological women”
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Well, it finally happened: writer J. K. Rowling, who’s been vocally progressive in her politics since she became famous, has now become demonized for being a “transphobe”. What that means is that she gave support, on Twitter, to another woman who was fired from her job (a charity) because she refused to recognize transsexual females (male —> female) as completely equivalent to biological females. The court case about the firing is summarized by Andrew Sullivan (who has views similar to Rowling) in his latest New York Magazine column, and he links to the judge’s decision declaring that the woman supported by Rowling, Maya Forstater, had every right to be fired. Another account of the case, insisting that Forstater was indeed a hateful transphobe, was given by Vox, which also displays many anti-Rowling tweets as if to buttress its stand. (Vox is quickly becoming like HuffPo.)
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Michael Walzer on Just War Theory
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in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: just war theory
Justice Scalia on affirmative action and positive discrimination
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in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Social justice warriors explained
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in economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: distributive justice, regressive left, social justice
People in this degree of distress should make any big decisions because their minds aren’t in a good place
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of mental illness
Michael Walzer on Just War and Terrorism
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in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: just war theory, war against terror
The land of droughts and flooding rains
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in economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists
Capitalism and Millennials: The 2018 James Q. Wilson Lecture
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: pessimism bias
The Green New Deal’s Bad Science @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @Greenpeace @NZGreens
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, nuclear power, solar power, wind power
Government Mandates and Crummy Dishwashers
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Four years ago, I wrote about how dishwashers don’t work very well because of foolish red tape from Washington.
The clever folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute put together a video on the topic.
I especially like the fake commercial at the start of the video.
But I don’t like the way my dishwasher performs.
And Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research shares my disdain.
American dishwashers used to work. They were wonderful labor-saving devices. They kept our kitchens cleaner. They sanitized the dishes, helping to stop cross-contamination and generally improving health over the iffy process of handwashing. …Then one day they just stopped doing the work. What happened?
…Dishwashers used to wash all the dishes in under one hour. Now they take two hours, three hours, and four hours, and still don’t get the dishes clean. …All of this is directly due to government regulations. …Now…
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