
Mankiw on wealth taxes
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Is there a country where the left isn’t losing elections to clowns? @uklabour has @jeremycorbyn as an excuse but elsewhere…
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

@BillMaher on Hunter Biden: If It Was Don Jr., ‘It Would Be All Rachel Maddow Was Talking About’
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, bribery and corruption
Intersectionality comes back to bit itself. Black women don’t suffer from a second layer of discrimination, racial discrimination
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination

Time to dial up the rhetoric. Declaring a #ClimateEmergency has not done the trick yet to persuade voters to overcome their hip-pocket nerve
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, climate alarmism

When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

A Deep Dive into Evolutionary Psychology and Sexuality | Geoffrey Miller | ACADEMIA | Rubin Report
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: evolutionary psychology
Question for @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall

No rewards await clean green NZ at climate change talks for investing early in green technologies? @mfe_news @NZTreasury @MFATgovtNZ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
#OIA 2 @mfe_news @NZTreasury: any research on how #endcoal & other demand-side emissions policies might quicken global warming
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economics, Public Choice
Brilliant @AlanDersh talk on 1801 Thomas Jefferson lost letter on free speech he picked up by chance at his favourite bookstore @bryce_edwards
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech
How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism



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