
Would ScoMo be in line for a #COVID19 Nobel Prize instead of Ardern but for #DictatorDan? WASPs only, of course
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Stoners don’t like to pay tax
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: California, marijuana decrimilisation, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
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in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

Posting this before progressive left outlaws it as blasphemy
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in law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Blasphemy, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

ACT leader David Seymour rides high on poll numbers
27 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election
North Korean Girl’s Culture Shock in America. Simply brilliant
27 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: North Korea
Getting this in before blasphemy is outlawed again
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in law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

The Gaelic Language | David Mitchell’s SoapBox
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of languages, network goods
Popper on the regressive left @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
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.@BernieSanders @AOC A @NZGreens @Greens @jeremycorbyn
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in liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: useful idiots

What does ##DefundThePolice actually mean?
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, crime and punishment, law and order, political correctness, regressive left, useful idiots
Lost on @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @nzlabour @amnesty
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in discrimination, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

The suppression of faith healing and medical quackery in early New Zealand
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Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
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in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences

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