Fiscal multipliers and welfare benefit increases
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: fiscal multiplier, Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Richard Epstein | The Case Against Reparations 2020
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein Tags: racial discrimination
Kate Andrews on the Gender Pay Gap, Feminism, Socialism & the NHS
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap
.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots
Immigration Rights | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: economics of immigration
Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
At the depths of the #COVID19 depression
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation
How do B- students keep up with pace of medical school course, much less pass exams?
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Dominion Post 19 September 2020, p. A7
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Trailblazer, Dies at 87 | @WSJ
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, gender, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, constitutional law
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Juice: How Electricity Explains The World – Documentary Trailer #1
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: climate alarmists, extreme poverty, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Escape
Jordan Peterson: The fatal flaw in leftist American politics | Big Think
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-market bias, envy, pessimism bias, regressive left, top 1%
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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