
Geoffrey Heal on the carbon tax might be a waste of time? @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon tax, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

@GlennLoury sees this refocusing on risk management as a bad thing? @sst_nz
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

George Stigler on workers of the world uniting and voting with their feet
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Discussions of the @RobinHoodTax are top of the list of the time I want bank on my death bed
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Tobin tax

The case against wind power
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: wind power

To Help Women, Should We Boycott Women’s Soccer?
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, sports economics, television Tags: gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: autocracy, fall of communism, World War II
Thomas Sowell on losing his religion
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

Never compromise on Enlightenment values
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left

Murray Rothbard on who gains from statistics
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation
Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law




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