Do Living Wage advocates realise it helps richer households more than poorer ones? My take: telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget… … http://t.co/YPTB6v7tSB—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) July 10, 2015
A living wage helps well-off households more!
10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: activists, British economy, British politics, do gooders, expressive voting, living wage, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
A lot of voters want to protect themselves from the scourge of lower prices
09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, expressive voting, free trade, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
Who favors free trade?
(The affluent.)
nytimes.com/2015/05/28/ups… @BrendanNyhan http://t.co/kojmUWUtH0—
Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 27, 2015
OECD starting a business rankings (New Zealand (1st) to Germany (114th)) – World Bank Doing Business rankings
09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: British economy, doing business, France, Germany, Italy, World Bank
Figure 1: Starting a business rankings – World Bank Doing Business rankings, OECD countries, 2014
Source: Doing Business – Measuring Business Regulations – World Bank Group.
There is surprising wide range in the World Bank Doing Business ranking of the difficulty and delays in starting a business across the OECD.
Germany is ranked 114 from the world for starting a business. New Zealand is ranked first with the USA, Italy and the UK ranked in the mid 40s in the Doing Business database.
Poverty rates by number of children – USA, UK, Canada and Australia
08 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents
Figure 1: poverty rates of adults aged 20 to 54 by presence of children, 2004
The political bias of psychologists
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: academic bias, bureaucratic bias, expressive voting, Leftover Left, media bias, occupational choice, political bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, social psychology, Twitter left
Why is it that the economics profession is the only profession questioned on the grounds of its political diversity?
1) Academic psychology once had considerable political diversity, but has lost nearly all of it in the last 50 years;
2) This lack of political diversity can undermine the validity of social psychological science via mechanisms such as the embedding of liberal values into research questions and methods, steering researchers away from important but politically unpalatable research topics, and producing conclusions that mischaracterize liberals and conservatives alike;
3) Increased political diversity would improve social psychological science by reducing the impact of bias mechanisms such as confirmation bias, and by empowering dissenting minorities to improve the quality of the majority’s thinking; and
4) The underrepresentation of non-liberals in social psychology is most likely due to a combination of self-selection, hostile climate, and discrimination.
via Psychology’s Political Diversity Problem | Psychology Today.
The case against waiting for trade agreements
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free trade agreements, globalisation, preferential trading agreements, regional trade agreements, trade creation, trade version, unilateral free trade
Solar and wind power – forever just round the corner
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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
Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2001
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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.
The key skill of consultants
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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
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
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: Australia, economics of immigration
The media history of climate change scares
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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