Will @minhealthnz take 2 years to approve a #COVID19 vaccine?

24 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: ,

1000 due to giving the prisoner access to their phone to give a number for police to check suitability of bail address. Denied bail because they didn’t know the number of proposed bail address

22 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: ,

But @AOC wants the working class to pay off her loan

22 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ,

From Will China Go Capitalist?

22 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

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No #climateemergency message discipline

21 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags:

From https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.pmcsa.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/Climate-Change-website-printable-version.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwii7JCFnZLtAhV-zTgGHSiHCZoQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw3uS2B1tvm0KZnRZtuwr9rm

The long-term effects of capital gains taxes

19 Nov 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: , , ,

From https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00779954.2010.492575

Will Medsafe take 2 years to approve a #COVID19 vaccine?

18 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: , ,

From Official Information Act release by Ministry of Health

Will Medsafe delay a #COVID19 vaccine by 6-months? @DomPost letter

16 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: ,

Scaling – The Real Problem with Socialism | David Friedman

15 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: ,

Nordhaus on the futility of further international conferences #globalwarming #climateemergency @mfe_news

14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, international economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

 

From https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/conferences/shared/pdf/20201019_confmonpol/Nordhaus.pdf

William Magear Boss Tweed: The Tiger of Tammany

14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, politics - USA, Public Choice

Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education

14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: ,

Tollison on Smith and corporate governance

12 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags:

#OTD 1989 @AOC @BernieSanders

11 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

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Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage

10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: , , ,

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