
The dead will be many from #COVID19’s 40% cut in new medical staff
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration, economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR – August Coup of 1991 #OTD
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Spot the government owned business @AOC @BernieSanders
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

@oxfam @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @AOC
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment

Was the Glorious Revolution a Dutch Conquest?
09 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, international economics, International law, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Glorious revolution, Protestant Reformation
Another useful idiot
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape, useful idiots

Kamala Harris attacks sleepy @JoeBiden’s record on race
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, affirmative action, racial discrimination
How many lockdowns are one too many? #COVID19 op-ed in @DomPost
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Seymour’s adjournment speech 2020
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, economics of pandemics, regressive left
Yet another reason why legal cannabis shops will not out-compete the gangs @NZDrug! Out of the way locations
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: anti-market bias, marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

A wise man doesn’t fall into a hole a clever man can climb out of: @JulieAnneGenter just kept digging
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, sports economics Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, meddlesome preferences, nanny state

Didn’t last long
24 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, International law, Public Choice Tags: France, Napoleon

Debunking Systemic Racism & Having Common Decency (Pt. 2) | Thomas Sowell
21 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Richard Posner (1997) on critical race theory
17 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner Tags: Age of Enlightenment, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left



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