
@GlennLoury sees this refocusing on risk management as a bad thing? @sst_nz
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

The anti-science left
30 Jul 2019 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left

Rethinking Race In America | Loury & McWhorter
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, racial discrimination
David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Do-gooder @NZGreen MPs gleefully accepted a petition outside of Parliament today against at-risk children ever being taken into care
30 Jul 2019 2 Comments
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand

Can @jamespeshaw remind me how his #ZeroCarbonBill will make a blind bit of difference
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting, virtue signaling

Discussions of the @RobinHoodTax are top of the list of the time I want bank on my death bed
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Tobin tax

The case against wind power
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: wind power

To Help Women, Should We Boycott Women’s Soccer?
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, sports economics, television Tags: gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
Nosey parkers prefer their privacy @NZPrivacy @NZHumanRights
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of information, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: economics of privacy, gender wage gap, monospony
Never compromise on Enlightenment values
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left

Justice Scalia on securing religious accommodations through normal democratic means
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: Freedom of religion

@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law




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