It was cheaper to go to the moon than to fake going to the moon
06 May 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - USA, transport economics Tags: conspiracy theories, moon landing
Abortion polling since the mid-1970s finds few distinctions in opinion by gender
06 May 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, politics - USA



Education trumps gender on views on abortion

.@GuardianWorld exaggerates NZ homeslessness by ten-fold
04 May 2018 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, urban economics Tags: homelessness


I am now a @DomPost hack as well as a @NZHerald hack according to some of @Whaleoil’s commentariat?!
04 May 2018 Leave a comment
in administration, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand


From https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/05/whaleoil-general-debate-1411/
As Ronald Coase said in 1972
One important result of this preoccupation with the monopoly problem is that if an economist finds something—a business practice of one sort or other—that he çloes not understand, he looks for a monopoly explanation. And as in this field we are very ignorant, the number of ununderstandable practices tends to be rather large, and the reliance on a monopoly explanation, frequent.
My @DomPost op-ed on petrol pricing and the theory of the empty core @EricCrampton
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, conspiracy theories, game theory
Climate change suits versus disclosures of threats to tax bases to the municipal bond market – interview with Stephen Winterstein
03 May 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, securities fraud
Christopher Hitchens | The consequences of ‘anti-war politics’ [2005]
01 May 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Christopher Hitchens, Gulf war, Iraq war, peace activists
We Read Hillary’s Book So You Don’t Have To
30 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
Explaining the NHS single payer health care system to @SenSanders
29 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of health insurance

In “$2.00 a day: living on almost nothing on America”, Edin and Shaefer argued welfare reform led to a surge in extreme poverty, families living in ‘extreme destitution’!
29 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 1996 federal welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty

With friends @nzprocom @moturesearch commenting like this, a zero carbon economy policy won’t survive to face its enemies
28 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism

#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom wants a great big increase in an old tax
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax

#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom on bit players leading the way in global public good supply
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: free riding, international public goods




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