Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, racial discrimination
In a great paper, The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials, Shamena Anwar, Patrick Bayer and Randi Hjalmarsson exploit random variation in the jury pool to estimate the effect of race on criminal trials. The authors have data from nearly 800 trials in two Florida counties. On any given day, a jury pool is randomly […]
The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
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in defence economics, International law, law and economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, media bias, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The Guardian (“ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour“), Sky News (“Anger after British commentator held by ICE in US… The post Guardian, Sky, ITV erase pro-Hamas views of British man facing US deportation appeared first on CAMERA UK.
Guardian, Sky, ITV erase pro-Hamas views of British man facing US deportation
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in politics Tags: British politics
An interesting poll at Electoral Calculus, where a 2,000 person poll of the British Establishment was done. They found: It would be interesting to do the same poll here. Very telling. Hating your country’s history! The post How the British establishment votes first appeared on Kiwiblog.
How the British establishment votes
28 Oct 2025 1 Comment
Shiny on the outside, rotten at the core
Te Pāti Māori’s campaign truck repossessed
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in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines
Anna Howe, Emma Best and Rachel Webb write – The recent confirmation of new measles cases unconnected to international travel suggests the highly contagious disease has likely started spreading through communities, according to Health New Zealand. This is a stark reminder of the pending danger of a larger measles outbreak. To prevent transmission once the measles virus […]
NZ may be on the cusp of another measles outbreak – what happened in 2019 should be a warning
27 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
I have been waiting for several weeks for this first car—a Tesla sedan (or whatever you call it)—to show up on my block again. It finally did, as I wanted to photograph it. First, the back (license plate number redacted): And, just to the left of the plate is this sticker: For zero emissions AND […]
Teslas and virtue flaunting
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in economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, conjecture and refutation, free speech, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
I’m getting tired of virtue-flaunting miscreants who yammer about our anthology The War on Science (Lawrence Krauss, ed.). Their beef? By and large, the 32 chapters by 39 authors discuss the negative effects of woke ideology on science, effects that come largely from inside science: scientists themselves, journals, publishers, university programs, and so on. And, […]
Why it’s not stupid to criticize aspects of leftist ideology that pollute science
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The Post reports: About one in five ACT local candidates won the seats they stand for and party leader David Seymour says he’s happy more weren’t successful because now they can stand to run for Parliament. “In some cases, I was kind of hoping they wouldn’t get elected so we can run them next year,” […]
Not bad for first time
24 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
Robert MacCulloch isn’t partisan in his political views. He is scathing about Labour and its potential partners and often goes very hard on National and the coalition government. But he’s found some good news: . . The Opposition’s Coalition of Chaos hasn’t come up with one sensible idea since losing power. Now the only brain […]
Fall good, faster better
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in economics of education, politics - Australia Tags: evolutionary biology, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Although the times when Homo sapiens reached Australia are under revision, the latest data suggests that they arrived between 45,000 and 60,000 years ago—about the time that our species left Africa for parts east. And although changes in water levels made it easier to get to Australia by water then now humans still had to […]
The sad fate of human evolutionary biology in Australia
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in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand
Labour and Greens want us to run out of gas, having banned future exploration. They think the country can be powered by 100% renewables. One problem is that many New Zealanders have gas powered heating and cooking. So what would be the cost of doing away with gas? We now have an answer with this […]
The cost of turning off gas
22 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: media bias
Media and Communications Minister, Paul Goldsmith’s handling of the BSA power grab follow 80 years of abysmal leadership by National Party governments re broadcasting, which have consistently betrayed their rhetoric about supporting competition and private enterprise. The National Party Holland/Holyoake government of 1949-1957, did nothing of consequence to roll back the Savage/Fraser Labour governments nationalisation […]
The BSA power grab: Post 2
18 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, law and order
I recently wrote about the effort of leading politicians, pundits, and the press to deny the existence of Antifa as violence on the left rises around the country. Even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) insisted that “nobody” knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist. However, he previously […]
Two Alleged Antifa Members Charged with Terrorism-Related Crimes
18 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of regulation, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, urban economics Tags: Canada
An interesting research note from Eric Crampton and at the NZ Initiative on the benefits of devolution on development. It details how Canadian First Nations have transformed their economic fortunes and have built thousands of new homes after gaining powers for planning, zoning, tax, and infrastructure finance. A couple of examples: The Squamish Nation’s 6,000-apartment […]
Devolution and Development
17 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics
A report by the New Zealand Initiative shows that the state is a very expensive landlord: Why does the government need to continue owning or managing more than 77,000 housing units, given its poor track record in this area, especially when state assistance can be provided without extensive government ownership? And why does it not […]
State very expensive landlord
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