Respecting Ideas, Even Dangerous Ones (Claire Lehmann Pt. 1)
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Ben Shapiro says political correctness breeds insanity
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Stossel: Socialism Fails Every Time
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Cuba, fall of communism
@Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Regressive Left
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace
Truth About The “Rape Epidemic”
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
These US estimates are still small @jamespeshaw @mfe_news; mostly from loss of life which is the easiest to fix by mitigation and adaptation
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

From S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Even runaway climate change of 6 to 8°C reduces GDP by by 2100! less than 10%
US has county level estimates but @jamespeshaw can’t estimate cost of global warming for NZ! @mfe_news says it is too hard!!
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Summing over 10 years still left the cost of global warming as tiny
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists

.@NZGreens are for net neutrality so it must be a bad idea. Easy policy shortcut?
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: net neutrality

How the US failed to rebuild Afghanistan
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, war against terror
Leftist Woman Asks Shapiro If He’s Transphobic
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in gender, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
What Trump’s Court Pick Means for Liberty
06 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: constitutional law
Reply of @NZTreasury to my Privacy Act request for a statement of correction to be attached to incorrect personal information
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice

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@NZPSA should have killed my op-ed with silence. Now have another chance to go at them again.
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap


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