
Rent Control Does Not Make Housing More Affordable
09 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: fall of communism
Kydland on the Great Recession and fiscal sentiment
01 Jan 2020 3 Comments
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, great recession, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, real business cycles

Pocahontas is on the warpath against freeloading billionaires @SenWarren
24 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%

My @NZHerald op-ed on @RossMcKitrick’s temperature contingent #carbontax #climateemergency @jamespeshaw @mfe_news
23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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








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