The Feel-Good Folly of Fossil-Fuel Divestment! @TaxpayersUnion

01 Mar 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , , ,

From https://www.wsj.com/articles/daniel-r-fischel-the-feel-good-folly-of-fossil-fuel-divestment-1423527484

From Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags:

From https://www.amazon.com/Health-Politics-Revolution-Cuba-Since/dp/1412808634

Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and Liberty

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health and safety, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice

Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead

29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: , , ,

From https://nyti.ms/29yvZ9y

Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)

28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: ,

Can banks create money at will?

28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, managerial economics, monetary economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags:

@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn

28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

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My @NZHerald op-ed @nzdrug @_chloeswarbrick @familyfirstnz

27 Feb 2020 2 Comments

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Paywalled at https://nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12311763

Hayek to @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace

24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

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Fred S. McChesney: Public vs. Private Enterprise

24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture

24 Feb 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ,

Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap

23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice Tags: , ,

Communist statistics

21 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

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Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society

19 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags:

Ross McKitrick on WUWT-TV Nov 15th 2012 economics of emissions

19 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ,

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