Focus groups in Oldham & Rochdale – Labour/Blair/Corbyn – Election Data
29 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: British politics, voter demographics
Labour-UKIP focus group one – full video – Election Data
29 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: British politics, focus groups, voter demographics
Lynton Crosby | Full Q&A | Oxford Union
28 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: voter demographics
South Korea and Industrial Policy
23 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: industry policy. South Korea, picking winners
The danger of virtue-signalling politicians
20 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, Public Choice Tags: expressive voting, virtue signalling
Apparently, I am a paid hack for the motor industry as well
19 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice, transport economics
#homeslessnessinquiry champions contracting-out @NZLabour @NZGreens @Maori_Party
10 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: homelessness
Did they swallow a dead rat! After complaining bitterly about the privatisation of social housing and the contracting out of government services and in particular social services generally, the New Zealand Labour Party, the New Zealand Greens and the Maori Party all accepted that part of the solution to better emergency housing services to the homelessness is to fund community housing providers to build them houses. A greater role for the private sector, be it the NGO sector, in solving pressing social problems.
Source: Cross-party enquiry into homelessness.
It is pious to say that NGOs should build new social housing but existing social housing should not be sold to them to administer better than the bureaucrats.
The private sector has always been the last line of the defence for the social safety net for the homeless. Hotels and motels are used for emergency housing. There are plenty of them and it takes very little time to book into one as long as WINZ sends along the documentation to guarantee payment.
The report of Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party included reference to the Kate Amore data on homelessness which comfirms its credibility. That data shows that homelessness has fallen significantly in NZ since 2001 and 2006.
Homelessness is a by-product of bureaucratic inefficiency. So few people are actually sleeping rough or in shelters on any one night that is really an issue of why are those people are not in a shelter or permanent social housing.
The problem of homelessness is the efficiency of the bureaucracy in identifying these people, putting them in temporary quarters be at a hotel or motel if necessary, and then moving them into social housing.
No one is surprised at a homelessness shelter is run by a church or charity all with the assistance of government funding. No one seriously expects bureaucrats to be any good at running homeless shelters or the hotels or motels where the homeless are occasionally booked in.
Why #Corbyn supporters should go door-knocking #ToriesforCorbyn
01 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
Source: PARTY ACTIVISTS AS CAMPAIGN ADVERTISERS: THE GROUND CAMPAIGN AS A PRINCIPAL-AGENT PROBLEM, 2015. American Political Science Review 109(2):252–278.
.@PPTANews @TraceyMartinMP made best ever argument 4 #charterschools @maori_party
28 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, politics - New Zealand
Talk about giving the giving the game away. The only way a state school can do as well as a chartered school in delivering to students is giving it more money than a chartered school can do to deliver the same results.
That is the best ever argument for a charter school, they provide better value for the education dollar. Is my logic faulty?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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