Bjorn Lomborg: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions And Fails To Fix The Planet

15 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

Why The Coronavirus May Forever Change Grocery Shopping | @WSJ

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Bryan Caplan on Marxism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle

The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament

12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: ,

Smelly Facts About London’s The Great Stink of 1858

11 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

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Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer

07 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

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But @Greens dropped anti-immigration stance only because of @PaulineHansonOz – a fellow economic nationalist

06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, Public Choice, public economics Tags: ,

From https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/greens-change-their-immigration-policy

NHS comes top with only one black mark

06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics Tags: , , ,

From https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress

Zombie firms and the #COVID19 reallocation shock policy response: Barrero, Bloom and Davis 25 June

02 Jul 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics, unemployment

From “COVID-19 Is Also A Reallocation Shock” with Jose Maria Barrero and Nick Bloom, 5 May 2020. Updated and expanded on 25 June 2020. Prepared for the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Slides | CNBC Interview | Chicago Booth Review | Free Exchange (The Economist) | Brookings | Webinar

Discretionary trusts with few beneficiaries should add a @NZGreen MP as a discretionary beneficiary so they must pay a wealth tax on their trust wealth. 325,000 trusts own houses in NZ

30 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, public economics Tags: , ,

$8b hole in @NZGreens 21/22 wealth tax! No tax returns before 7/7/22; no revenue banked before 7/2/23 @TaxpayersUnion

29 Jun 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand, public economics

From https://www.greens.org.nz/poverty_action_plan at page 20

 

https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1277425302935871490

More on reservations as backwaters

28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: ,

Cost-Effective Approaches to Save the Environment, with Bjorn Lomborg

19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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:

Race, class and culture: A conversation with William Julius Wilson and J.D. Vance

16 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags:

Jack Hirshleifer on public good composition

04 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, defence economics, public economics

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=VbrKgDK-rioC&pg=PA526&lpg=PA526&dq=economics+best+shot+public+goods+%22vaccines%22+JACK+HIRSHLEIFER&source=bl&ots=J7PiyCNVdi&sig=ACfU3U0cJyMKnKI4qlvc0wxNhKlWUxPlhA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj94tqi5N3pAhUSxzgGHWwFBXwQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=economics%20best%20shot%20public%20goods%20%22vaccines%22%20JACK%20HIRSHLEIFER&f=false

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