
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
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, public economics Tags: envy, regressive left, wealth tax

$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
in politics - New Zealand, public economics
More on reservations as backwaters
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
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: Canada, racial discrimination

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
Race, class and culture: A conversation with William Julius Wilson and J.D. Vance
16 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
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: racial discrimination
Jack Hirshleifer on public good composition
04 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, public economics
The Premiers’ Plan versus the New Deal. Do Keynesian macroeconomists ever study 1930s Australia
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, public economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics

Is inflation always and everywhere a fiscal phenomenon – from John Cochrane’s draft book
30 May 2020 Leave a comment

The Keynesian Approach to #COVID19 Budget Deficits
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic growth, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: economics of pandemics, Keynesian macroeconomics
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 6 – What’s Wrong with our Schools
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, television, unemployment, unions Tags: chartered schools







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