In our spring poll 51% of Dems said #TPP would be a good thing compared w/ 43% of Reps http://t.co/qhNsjnXHPj pic.twitter.com/kCyoI5UiNJ
— Richard Wike (@RichardWike) October 7, 2015
#TPA more popular among democrats
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, international economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: TPA, voter demographics
Has the Democratic Party lost the white working class
29 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: American politics, Democratic Party, rational ignorance, rational rationality, suppressive voting, Withering away of the proletariat
Again, the decline in white working class support for Democrats is vastly overstated. I bid you a good night. http://t.co/bUNpME5o3B—
The Monkey Cage (@monkeycageblog) September 13, 2015
More reasons to let @jeremycorbyn be Corbyn – non-voters believe much the same things as voters
24 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in constitutional political economy, income redistribution, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: British politics, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, Twitter left, voter demographics
It is vital to permanent Tory rule that Jeremy Corbyn stay staunch to the principles and electoral strategy on which he was elected by Labour Party members and supporters to be their leader and alternative Prime Minister.
Source: The huge shock coming down the track for the Corbynites | Conservative Home
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Source: New polling data shows the challenge facing Jeremy Corbyn
Peter Kellner: Measuring the gap between Corbyn’s supporters and Labour’s target voters – y-g.co/1izSpph http://t.co/f1NaNL4xgt—
(@YouGov) September 25, 2015
The rise of democracy in the 20th century
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of the Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, rule of law
Tariffs and the class war
10 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, international economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: rentseeking, tariffs
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates?
03 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: compensating differentials, evidence-based policy, media bias, offsetting behaviour, public intellectuals, sociology, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates? @familyunequal does a better job with the #s blog.contexts.org/2015/01/25/soc… http://t.co/c4E25DTCmm—
(@SocImages) February 04, 2015
US income distribution
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
Expulsions of Jews across Europe during the Medieval & Early Modern periods
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-semitism, European history
Expulsions of Jews across Europe during the Medieval & Early Modern periods. http://t.co/4HKGlNCjou—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) July 08, 2015
Why some billionaires are bad for growth, and others aren’t
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: Australia, billionaires, Russia, top 0.1%, top 1%
…Bagchi and Svejnar carefully went through the lists of all the Forbes billionaires, and divided them into those who had acquired their wealth due to political connections, and those who had not. This is kind of a slippery slope — almost all billionaires have probably benefited from government connections at one time or another.
But the researchers used a very conservative standard for classifying people as politically connected, only assigning billionaires to this group when it was clear that their wealth was a product of government connections. Just benefiting from a government that was pro-business, like those in Singapore and Hong Kong, wasn’t enough.
Rather, the researchers were looking for a situation like Indonesia under Suharto, where political connections were usually needed to secure import licenses, or Russia in the mid-1990s, when some state employees made fortunes overnight as the state privatized assets.
…The negative effects of wealth inequality are largely being driven by politically connected wealth inequality. That seems to be the primary channel that drives this relationship…
a 3.72 percent increase in the level of wealth inequality would cost a country about half a percent of real GDP per capita growth. That’s a big impact, given that average GDP growth is in the neighbourhood of two percent per year
More evidence of mass kidnappings of #occupywallstreet activists
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics Tags: expressive voting, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, mass kidnappings, Occupy Wall Street, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, superstar wages, superstars, top 0.1%, top 1%
Ratio of Median Salary of Top 25 Highest Paid MLB Player to Avg. Worker Pay Increased from 100:1 to 700:1 Since 1988 http://t.co/5zLktBXS3D—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 18, 2015
Henry Hazlett on why economics is so difficult
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, bootleggers and baptists, green rent seeking, Henry Hazlett, makework bias, methodology of economics, philosophy of economics
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