
#OIA to @NZHumanRights: any research on the extent of pay transparency and pay secrecy
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap, The fatal conceit

A pointless prosecution
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization

Why gains most from stronger hate speech laws? @NZHumanRights
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Lee Ohanian on crisis management
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

Virtue signaling @kfcnz’s paper bag is too small, leaks, no handle. Drinks spill in car #plasticbagfascism @eugeniesage
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling

Planned to walk to the supermarket but drove because it was too inconvenient to carry the reusable bags @EUGENIESAGE’S #PLASTICBAGFASCISM
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Brad DeLong quote to be read out to leftists who complains about WINZ or any other bureaucracy
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand
Majority of gang members are inside for violent offences @sst_nz
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment


Released by the Department of Corrections under the Official Information Act 23 August 2019.
My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
After only 227 pages does @NZComCom reveal its criteria for markets predisposed to collusion
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, competition law, oligopoly

The old hippies at @NZComCom force Harold Demsetz turn in his grave by using profits to assess competition. So 1960s. Died after his 1973 paper.
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law

Criminals released after DNA testing started are 17% less likely to reoffend! @sst_nz (A greater chance of getting caught is instant rehabilitation)
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order





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