Risks the woke ignore

28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

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My @NZHerald op-ed on @RossMcKitrick’s temperature contingent #carbontax #climateemergency @jamespeshaw @mfe_news

23 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags:

Paywalled at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12295745

Justice Scalia on affirmative action and positive discrimination

22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

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Social justice warriors explained

22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , ,

Capitalism and Millennials: The 2018 James Q. Wilson Lecture

22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags:

The Green New Deal’s Bad Science @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @Greenpeace @NZGreens

22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , ,

Champ and Freeman on hyperinflation as always and everywhere a fiscal phenomenon

21 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

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The World’s Strangest Borders Part 4: Ocean Madness

21 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, personnel economics, public economics, rentseeking Tags:

Why have @jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders @MMFlint @AOC @TheOliverStone @NZGreens Sean Penn gone all quite on their socialist paradise?

20 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, energy economics, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , ,

#climateemergency @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren @Greenpeace @oxfamnz @Greens @NZGreens @AmnestyNZ

20 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags:

“Good Intentions” with Walter E. Williams

15 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: , , , , ,

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

10 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

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POVERTY – Who’s to Blame? – The 2019 Hayek Memorial Lecture – Professor Bryan Caplan

08 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: , , ,

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

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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

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