from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html
Creative destruction in taxi medallions
20 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: taxi regulation, transitional gains trap
Cohen v. California: Vietnam War was 1st war that could lawfully be criticized, much less hated!!
19 May 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech, Vietnam war
Why free speech has no political party | Jonathan Zimmerman (those at the bottom need free speech the most because it is all they have)
19 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Spot on on the viciousness of the woke left (who live to seize on what are often slips of the tongue or the beer talking)
19 May 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: political correctness
How effective are abortion activists at crafting arguments that win over new supporters since Roe v. Wade?
19 May 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA Tags: abortion law reform
From https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-has-public-opinion-about-abortion-changed-since-roe-v-wade
Thomas Sargent Emergency Economic Summit for Greece: Part 2
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: sovereign defaults, Thomas Sargent
North Korea’s Counterfeiting Operation Funded Its Nuclear Program
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, international economic law, International law, law and economics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: North Korea
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
Neither @msdgovtnz nor the welfare working group have any interest in benefit fraud research @TaxpayersUnion
17 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform Tags: social insurance
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
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