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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

Is there a social cost to prematurely or erroneously denouncing a political opponent as a racist?

08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left

Ignorance is strength for the woke left

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by Jim Rose in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Boys competing in girls’ sports? It’s time to stand for fair play @aniobrien @HJJoyceEcon

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left

Donald Dewey’s Yale Law Journal 1978 Review of Robert Bork’s Antitrust Paradox @sandeepvaheesan @ProMarket_org @openmarkets

07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: competition law

Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, protectionism, tariffs and quotas, trade wars

Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination

Anyone this fragile should not be making long-term decisions

06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA

From http://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS%20Full%20Report%20-%20FINAL%201.6.17.pdf

The solution to the #ClimateEmergency is at hand but is ignored because it might work @jamespeshaw @greenpeace

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, Thomas Schelling Tags: international public goods

@sandeepvaheesan misrepresents Robert Bork on merger policy @ProMarket_org @openmarkets

06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law

"Robert Bork belongs in this pantheon of parents of the new #GildedAge," writes Open Markets Legal Director @sandeepvaheesan. Read his latest on @ProMarket_org. https://t.co/aoWLkHBe6a

— Open Markets Institute (@openmarkets) September 6, 2019

You wonder what @NZComCom would have made of Rockefeller?

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@Greens want to bring back drownings

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@AOC believes poor people own the beachfront Florida properties damaged by hurricanes

05 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, poverty and inequality

This is what climate change looks like: it hits vulnerable communities first.

I can already hear climate deniers screeching: “It’s always been like this! You’re dim,” etc.

No. This is about science & leadership. We either decarbonize&cut emissions, or we don’t & let people die. https://t.co/paUHKAp03e
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 3, 2019

Greenpeace Co-Founder: AOC’s Claim That Hurricanes Hit Vulnerable Communities First Is ‘Ridiculous’ https://t.co/m9vJcqtklE
— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) September 5, 2019

Note for @NZGreens

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by Jim Rose in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmism, vaccines

Note for the anti-science left

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by Jim Rose in economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-GMO movement, cranks

David Andolfatto

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Monetary Non-Neutrality

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Reason Magazine

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Thoughts from the North

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

A History of the Alt-Right

Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois

Bassett, Brash & Hide

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Truth on the Market

Scholarly commentary on law, economics, and more

The Undercover Historian

Beatrice Cherrier's blog

Matua Kahurangi

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Temple of Sociology

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Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

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Why Evolution Is True

Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.

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A rural perspective with a blue tint by Ele Ludemann

DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003

The Dangerous Economist

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Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

The Logical Place

Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism

A window into Doc Freiberger's library

The Risk-Monger

Let's examine hard decisions!

Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey

Barrie Saunders

Thoughts on public policy and the media

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Politics and the economy

James Bowden's Blog

A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions

Science Matters

Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.

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

The Antiplanner

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History of Sorts

WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST

Roger Pielke Jr.

Undisciplined scholar, recovering academic

Offsetting Behaviour

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JONATHAN TURLEY

Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks

Conversable Economist

In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”

The Victorian Commons

Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868

The History of Parliament

Articles and research from the History of Parliament Trust

Reflections on books and art

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Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice

Sex, Drugs and Economics

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European Royal History

Exploring the Monarchs of Europe

Tallbloke's Talkshop

Cutting edge science you can dice with

Marginal REVOLUTION

Small Steps Toward A Much Better World

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.