Ross McKitrick: a truth-based cap-and-trade linked to tropical troposphere temperature, which you can then short if a skeptic or go long if an alarmist
07 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon pricing, green rent seeking
Richard Epstein | The Continuing Relevance of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
06 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, rule of law
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
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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