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Bad news for #greennewdeal @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren

18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

The economic and personal sacrifice that the average American would have to make in order to ban all fossil fuels within 10 years is orders of magnitude larger than a 25 cent gas tax increase. It's the right thing to do, but it WILL involve sacrifice.
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) September 15, 2019

So now we know the result of the incessant scare campaign on climate for the last 30 years

About half of all people across the world believe humanity will go extinct because of climate!

This is totally against what the UN Climate Panel tells ushttps://t.co/Z2SiPdDnaF pic.twitter.com/ro6cz5gvKL
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 17, 2019

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley

17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Cold War, economics of colonialism, World War II

Weitzman on the dark side of the Stern review

16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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Weitzman on the fragile basis of the Stern review

15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem

15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From https://fee.org/resources/roofs-or-ceilings-the-current-housing-problem/

Piketty wants to abolish billionaires even though most all are self-made

14 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: creative destruction, envy, top 1%

From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/13/influential-thomas-piketty-back-dangerous-ever/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AtF9Bz3SFf33

Timur Kuran on “The Portal”, “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception.”

11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: preference falsification

Closest @TheAusInstitute got to asking if the carbon tax should be unrepealed

10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, Public Choice, public economics

"We found that across the board concern about climate change has increased, despite political preferences," says @RichieMerzian @TheAusInstitute on @BreakfastNews #auspol

Research: Climate of the Nation 2019 > https://t.co/BbKoVpEVUo pic.twitter.com/1994d068Dd
— Australia Institute (@TheAusInstitute) September 10, 2019

Voters still have short fingers and long pockets despite @Greenpeace @jamespeshaw ramping up their #ClimateEmergency rhetoric

09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmism

From http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx

Thomas Sargent on rational expectations and the effect of taxes

08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes

08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%

https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/1170002229996269568

Hershleifer contrasts normative versus positive analysis

03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit

@AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn

02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment

The fatal conceit

01 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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Finn Kydland on the slow recovery from the Great Recession

31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, fiscal policy, great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics Tags: real business cycles

Reason Magazine

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A History of the Alt-Right

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Why Evolution Is True

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Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on

A Venerable Puzzle

"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. - J Robert Oppenheimer.

STOP THESE THINGS

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