Charles Murray on Coming Apart
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: Charles Murray
Milton Friedman: The Food and Drug Administration and Self Interest
28 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: drug lags
Why the Lights Are Still Off in Puerto Rico
23 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA
Ben Shapiro – How to Debate Systemic Racism using Facts
23 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, police shootings, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Jonathan Haidt on globalism vs patriotism
23 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of religion, income redistribution, international economics, law and economics, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of immigration, globalism, nationalism, political correctness, populism, regressive left
Are these the values of a te tiriti led @Masseyuni?
22 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, liberalism, politics - New Zealand
From Cold War To Hot Peace
22 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, politics - USA Tags: Cold War, Russia
Abortion: How do Americans vote on a divisive issue? | IN 60 SECONDS
20 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: abortion law reform, voter demographics
.@NZGreens approach to defence and the war against terror
18 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: war against terror
.@MaxRashbrooke wants to close Jetstar and give Telecom its monopoly back! Seriously; that is the test of whether he believes what he is saying
16 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand
Does this mean Max always flys Air New Zealand and has his mobile phone contract with Telecom?
Everyone’s household income has gone up according to these impeccable left-wing sources despite the dead hand of neoliberalism; there was the return of real wages growth after 20 years stagnation after the passage of the Employments Contracts Act. After staying at $24 per hour for 20 years from 1975 in the good old days of union power and collective bargaining, average wages increased from $24 an hour to about $28 per hour by 2014 in one of the most deregulated labour markets in the world.
The increase in percentage terms of Maori and Pasifika real household income is much larger than for Pakeha since the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. As Bryan Perry (2015, p. 67) explains when commenting on table D6 sourced by Closer Together Whakatata Mai:
From a longer-term perspective, all groups showed a strong rise from the low point in the mid 1990s through to 2010. In real terms, overall median household income rose 47% from 1994 to 2010: for Maori, the rise was even stronger at 68%, and for Pacific, 77%. These findings for longer- term trends are robust, even though some year on year changes may be less certain. For 2004 to 2010, the respective growth figures were 21%, 31% and 14%.
The classic in Australia is Kim Beazley in the 1998 federal election:
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He was asked by a journalist that if the GST is a mistake, as he claimed, would he repeal the GST if he won office at some later time.
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Beazley waffled about you can’t unscramble an egg and so on. He could not admit the truth.
If deregulation was a mistake, campaign for a reintroducing of the two-airline policy, the bank regulation that suppressed competition, high tariffs on cars, electrical goods and clothes, and media regulation that outlawed cable TV. Campaign for a repeal of the GST and for 66% tax rates again on the middle class! The Left must campaign for a buy back of the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas and Telecom. They will be a good buy. Public ownership is said by them to be as least as efficient as private ownership, and the cost of capital cost for state owned enterprises is allegedly less.
Veteran lefties (disappointed?) to discover NZ Rich listers are working rich
16 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Why don’t boat people seeking asylum enter via the Torres Strait?
16 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia Tags: economics of borders, maps
UPDATED Sheree’s support: Press council complaint against @radionz; @GraemeEdgeler @keith_ng
14 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform
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