
#climateemergency @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren @Greenpeace @oxfamnz @Greens @NZGreens @AmnestyNZ
20 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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: The Great Enrichment

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
10 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
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
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

This Unpleasant Royal Job Came with a Fancy Title
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking
Labour supply in the Indian caste system
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of religion, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: caste system, India, religious discrimination
@jeremycorbyn was a useful idiot for apartheid too
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: apartheid, British politics, racial discrimination, South Africa

Patrick Michaels on modelling of #globalwarming
22 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, data mining, publication bias

.@MBIEgovtnz warns of more homelessness from fairer tenancy reforms by @jacindaardern
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Zilibotti on Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory

No landlord with rent to tenants with less than stellar credentials from now on.
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences




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