HL Mencken on the Harmful Digital Communication Bill
26 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: chilling effect, disorderly conduct, free speech, infotopia, Internet trolls, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
What Percentage of Your Country Smokes Marijuana?
25 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: marijuana decriminalisation, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
What Percentage of Your Country Smokes Marijuana?
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Priceonomics (@priceonomics) April 21, 2015
@MaxRashbrooke The top 1% in New Zealand are lazy and incompetent as a ruling class
24 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Rawls and Nozick, unions Tags: capitalism and freedom, Class war, Joan Robinson, Joseph Schumpeter, social insurance, The Great Enrichment, top 1%, welfare state, withering away in the proletariat
New work by Chris Ball and John Creedy shows substantial *declines* in NZ inequality.
initiativeblog.com/2015/06/24/ine… http://t.co/f94fw4Bhae—
Eric Crampton (@EricCrampton) June 24, 2015
The top 1% in New Zealand really have been dropping the class war ball for at least a generation.
Source: The World Top Incomes Database.
Not only have the New Zealand top 1% been pretty miserable at increasing their share of incomes, hardly any change since 1990 and not much before that, the top 1% allowed inequality in both consumption and disposable income to actually fall since 1990 as shown by Treasury analysis published today.
Joan Robinson was on to this in the 1940s when she said the battle cry of Marxists would have to change from the 1848 version “rise up ye workers, rise up for you have nothing to lose but your chains” to “rise up ye workers, rise up for you have nothing to lose but the prospect of a suburban home and a motorcar”.
Today that battle cry of the Marxist revolution would have to be “rise up ye workers rise up for you have nothing to lose but your iPhone and your air points”. As Joan Robinson observed in the 1940s, that’s not much of a basis for a revolutionary movement.
How fainting couch feminism threatens freedom
24 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: feminism, free speech, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, political correctness
When was slavery abolished in the Americas?
23 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism Tags: maps, slavery
The dates slavery was abolished in the Americas bit.ly/1BB94w4 http://t.co/Fs3pc0xrU9—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) January 05, 2015
Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Micro-aggressions, and other Fruits of Campus Feminism
17 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - USA Tags: Christina Hoff Sommers, expressive politics, expressive voting, feminism, identity politics, political correctness
The essence of the Left over Left
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: expressive voting, Green Left, Leftover Left, political correctness, rational irrationality, Twitter left
@KayHymowitz i find it passing strange that counter-culturals left like Winner now are the most reactionary.. http://t.co/hj2MEc4Buu—
Old Whig (@aClassicLiberal) April 06, 2015
Irrational nonsense mapped
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antifluoridation movement, antiscience left, BlackBerry, conjecture and refutation, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, expressive voting, infotopia, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The essence of liberalism is no privilege before the law
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, liberalism Tags: Thomas Sowell
Tehran students, 1971
10 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: Iran
Tehran students, Iran, 1971 http://t.co/sJEZQbwlD2—
History In Pictures (@ClassicInPics) June 09, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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