N.B: @Greenpeace @Oxfam @NZGreens @jamespeshaw
06 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, Public Choice Tags: Anti-Science left
Boris Johnson’s Big Gamble: A Winning Strategy for Brexit? | @WSJ
06 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in international economics, International law, Public Choice Tags: Brexit
Champ and Freeman on bank capital reserves
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, agent principal problem, deposit insurance, economics of central banking, monetary policy, moral hazard, prudential regulation
What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Focus group: Can Tories win over @UKLabour supporters who back Leave?
03 Dec 2019 1 Comment
in income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Brexit, British politics
Friedman (1951) thought the union wage premium was overstated because it can’t be as big as doctors’ extract from occupational licensing
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, occupational regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: barriers to entry, occupational licensing, union power, union wage premium
@AmnestyNZ complains despite frequent grant of asylum to uncooperative refugees on minimal information
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Parliament staying its hand on a 2004 private member’s bill didn’t stop @NZHumanRights from amending the law! It stands as regent over our parliament, dealing out victories that cannot be won on the floor of Parliament through normal democratic means?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
The wages of sin had a good run @USAMViceFund
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness
More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on self-fulfilling financial crises and speculative attacks
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
George Orwell: The Uncompromising Visionary
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, Marxist economics, Public Choice
Is Economic Growth a Moral Imperative? Lecture by Tyler Cowen
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
@AmnestyNZ claims claims Manus island asylum seekers “can never leave” PNG. 42% returned home so Amnesty complains about that too
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: PNG, regressive left
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