Did Obama’s fiscal stimulus work?
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: fiscal stimulus, obama
US income distribution
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
The March on Washington, this day in 1963
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: civil rights
The incomes of the bottom 99%
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: top 1%
In 1985, Obama’s science advisor John Holdren predicted that by now we’d be approaching a billion CO2-related deaths from famine
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, cranks, doomsday profits, doomsday prophecies, global warming, Quacks
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, economics of the family, racial discrimination, single mothers, single parents, teen pregnancies
Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family? Not exactly. bit.ly/1f8jgXm http://t.co/1q2nKJnU9W—
City Journal (@CityJournal) August 13, 2015
Should backyard swimming pools be banned?
26 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health and safety, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: gun control, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, risk risk trade-offs
The Bootleggers and Baptists alliance between big tobacco and anti-smoking lobbyists on e-cigarettes
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, pressure groups, special interests
Do the @NZGreens care about the fuel poverty consequences of carbon taxes?
24 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmism, expressive voting, fuel poverty, global warming
Who is harmed the most from higher energy costs? The poor, who spend almost 25% of their disposable income on energy? http://t.co/YOn28COXy8—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) June 22, 2015
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed #OnThisDay 1939
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: communist party, left-wing traitors, World War II
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed #OnThisDay in 1939. Stalin was no less evil than Hitler econ.trib.al/iCowG41 http://t.co/yxr5FCW1xg—
The Economist (@EconEurope) August 23, 2015
The next Australian election will be much more competitive than I thought
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: 2016 Australian federal election
Any new strategy after Feb's "Good govt starts today" yet to pay dividends for LNP #auspoI #ipsos http://t.co/cnbksuQAvL—
Danny Rose (@_DannyRose) August 16, 2015
How big is Uber
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
CHART: How Big is Uber vs. Legacy Taxis? VERY, VERY BIG nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html… http://t.co/gz0vXPZDip—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 22, 2015
via Summer of Uber: Everything you need to know about the upstart ride-sharing service.
Marginal tax rates of 2-income couples with 2 children in USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2000
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia taxation and labour supply, British economy, marriage and divorce
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