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Solar and wind power – forever just round the corner

05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, creative destruction, green rent seeking, renewable energy, solar power, wind power

The graduate premium for New Zealand is at the bottom of the OECD ladder

05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium

The role of low wages in poverty

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: expressive politics, Leftover Left, poverty, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

Moral panic about inequality in the UK and New Zealand compared

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in income redistribution, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antimarket bias, Christopher Snowden, distributive justice, Eric Crampton, expressive voting, Leftover Left, moral panic, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, social justice, top 1%, Twitter left

Here's that soaring inequality we keep hearing about. http://t.co/nhSGzjKn66—
Christopher Snowdon (@cjsnowdon) June 29, 2015

New work by Chris Ball and John Creedy shows substantial *declines* in NZ inequality.

initiativeblog.com/2015/06/24/ine… http://t.co/f94fw4Bhae—
Eric Crampton (@EricCrampton) June 24, 2015

@TheWirelessNZ @XTOTL Nice! Good to see that consumption inequality in NZ has fallen so much then! http://t.co/o8w492f0JP—
Eric Crampton (@EricCrampton) June 26, 2015

Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2001

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, gender wage gap

Figure 1: Gender wage gap (unadjusted % difference between median wages of male and female full-time employees)

Source: OECD StatExtract.

John Rawls on the limits of inequality

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

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Apathetic Labour voters – New Zealand myths and realities

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: shy Labour voters, voter demographics

via Busting non-voter pattern myths | Election Data Consortium | New Zealand News UK.

The key skill of consultants

04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: charlatans, consultants, market for experts

Where Cannabis is legal

03 Jul 2015 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: marijuana decriminalisation, meddlesome preferences, medical marijuana decriminalisation, nanny state

Map of where Cannabis is legal (2014)

From: bit.ly/1uZ2uvq http://t.co/e0W7fJ8FZC—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 30, 2015

45% of Australia and New Zealand are immigrants or their children

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: Australia, economics of immigration

Swedish & US net social expenditure (public and publicly mandated) nearly equal

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA, public economics Tags: employment mandates, fringe benefits, growth of government, size of government, social expenditure, Sweden, welfare state

After benefits taxed Swedish & US welfare spending nearly equal 22% vs 20% GDP bit.ly/1bVqtcy @janeriklarsson http://t.co/ohshBBKZm1—
Old Whig (@aClassicLiberal) April 29, 2015

The media history of climate change scares

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmism, global cooling, global warming, media bias

War Plan Red: The 1930 US War Department plan to invade Canada

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Canada

War Plan Red: The 1930 US War Department plan to invade Canada – bit.ly/1srJcxW via @ezraklein http://t.co/ai3A96nY34—
Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) December 14, 2014

What is the most common use of a gun at crime scenes?

03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, gun control

Senate Voting Relationships, 1993, 2003, 2013

02 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: political polarisation, U.S. Senate

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2003

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via Senate Voting Relationships.

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Why Evolution Is True

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Let's examine hard decisions!

Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey

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Politics and the economy

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Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.

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JONATHAN TURLEY

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