
American opinion on abortion is more nuanced that the media would have you believe
06 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: abortion

Intersectionality must be able to explain this
04 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, politics - USA
Gerald Daugherty is a Republican candidate whose wife asks voters to do her a favor and get him out of the house
01 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: political advertising
Don’t Let Hillary Clinton Leave You Defenseless. Best negative Republican ad from the National Rifle Assn. A gripping mini-drama of a woman hearing an intruder in her house
01 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Attack Ads, gun control
Jobs exposed to Chinese tariffs are more than twice as likely to fall in counties that voted Trump in 2016
26 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: trade wars

Freedom of the press: The First Amendment protections (1975) – with Antonin Scalia
25 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech
Poverty traps explained
21 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, public economics, welfare reform Tags: family poverty, poverty traps

#OTD 1972 The Watergate burglary
19 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: bribery and corruption, Richard Nixon

What Is Intersectionality?
18 Jun 2018 1 Comment
in discrimination, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Many more Maori living to their 1st birthday is the key legacy of 175 years of colonisation
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: age of empires, economics of colonialism, Maori economic development, political correctness, regressive left
Maybe a few more should be in prison for traffic offences?
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: crime and punishment, road safety

Why prisoners are in prison in NZ
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment

Obviously doesn’t know how large, powerful and accepted the KKK was in the Democratic Party
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: KKK, regressive left, war against terror

Further contemporaneous evidence that the Electoral College was Hilary’s firewall
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election

How genetically modified mosquitoes could fight malaria #GMO @greenpeace
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Anti-Science left, GMOs, regressive left

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