Biggest Threat to the Resistance You’ve Never Heard of: SLAPP and free speech
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: defamation, free speech
How is SLAPP any different from the hate speech laws championed by the @NZGreens?
17 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand

.@Greens Senator Kerry Nettle was wrong to apologize for causing offence for wearing this t-shirt in 2006
17 May 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: abortion law reform, free speech

Today’s rich are a working rich says an unimpeachable source
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the Eurocrisis
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: banking panics, moral hazard
Why drugs cost more in America
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: health insurance
How on earth will legalising marijuana make it less accessible? If it does, why would the black market go away?
15 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
Prohibition reduced alcohol consumption but at what price? Was the trade-off worth it?
15 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA
“A Life Cycle Model of Trans-Atlantic Employment Experiences” by Thomas J. Sargent
15 May 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: European unemployment, Thomas Sargent
Weed is not more dangerous than alcohol
14 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: marijuana decriminalisation
Why Free Speech (even Hate Speech) is the best friend of the Oppressed – Jonathan Rauch
14 May 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech






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