Behind on my #GMO blogging @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam
20 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, cranks, regressive left
Cost-Effective Approaches to Save the Environment, with Bjorn Lomborg
19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists
They will come for statues of Bob Hawke next
12 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economics of crime, international economics, International law, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of immigration, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, virtue signaling
.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Kaupapa Māori indigenous knowledge-based econometrics is surprisingly sophisticated for pre-Age of Enlightenment intuitive knowledge that also thought the earth was flat! Academic rent seeking/tokenism to win research grants?
28 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, health economics, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking
… (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.
I tuhi a Rōpiha i ētahi pūrongo i ‘Te Ao Hou’, ā, i āwhina atu hoki ia ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa a te maheni nei i ōna tau tuatahi (TTR 2000:188). / Rōpiha wrote articles for ‘Te Ao Hou’, and he also helped guide the magazine’s policies in its early years.
kaupapa Māori
1. Māori approach, Māori topic, Māori customary practice, Māori institution, Māori agenda, Māori principles, Māori ideology – a philosophical doctrine, incorporating the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of Māori society.
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives – Jonathan Haidt
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political psychology
Unemployment rate in Georgia is 40%
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: 2020 presidential election, economics of pandemics, moral hazard, unemployment insurance
Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia?
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Malaysia, racial discrimination, Singapore
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 2 – The Tyranny of Control
22 May 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, television Tags: capitalism and freedom, India, Japan
The staggering cost of NIMBYISM
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning
Gordon Tullock explains the Korean economic miricle
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: South Korea
David Friedman on opposition to foreign investment
13 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, income redistribution, international economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking
What part of exporting at uncompetitive prices do @NZFirst not understand?
04 May 2020 Leave a comment
in international economic law, international economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: tariffs
Myth of the Rational Voter
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, regressive left
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