The Vision of Jeffrey Sachs
28 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid, The fatal conceit
Our house too big for ultrafast broadband hook-up @stevenljoyce @TaxpayersUnion @EricCrampton
26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Your picking loses detector is at maximum when governments are retrofitting infrastructure in the suburbs. We just had Chorus in to retrofit ultrafast broadband to our house. Our house is too big and complicated to rewire.
In addition to stringing a wire from the road to a ATC box, as with everybody, we need to rewire from that box to my office for another ultrafast broadband box next to my computer on the other side of the house 2 floors up. I was told I would need an electrician to do that as the house is already built, most of the wires will probably be external, ugly and I would have to pay for it and the drilling through my floors.
Seems like the political genius behind government paying for ultra fast broadband including fitting it into my house assumed everybody had a nice simple one story house where the office was near the ACT box so there would be minimal rewiring. That would involve minimal internal wiring.
If I want to proceed, I need to bring in an electrician and as the house is already been built, he will need to drill holes, string wires and then the chorus team will come back. The alternative was to have my modem just above the ATC box in the spare bedroom and the rest of the house operate including my desktop in my office on Wi-Fi which seems to very must defeat point of ultrafast broadband indeed.
When a plague of aid and NGO professionals descended upon Afghanistan
22 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
Source: Why Nations Fail.
Corruption in driver’s licenses
21 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: economics of corruption, India
Corruption and Parking Tickets
20 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of corruption
William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo: Emerging economies in 2013
20 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
Hawaiian civil defence seems to have room for improvement
17 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy
Africa Needs Jobs, Not Aid
17 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
Jagdish Bhagwati Reveals the Problem With Foreign Aid
15 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35
14 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, economics of colonialism
Interesting but flawed. The age of empires was prior to the industrial revolution.
Sam Peltzman on Teacher’s Unions
07 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: teachers unions
Tyler Cowen spot on about the words evidence-based; my views precisely
17 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
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