
@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law

Sam Peltzman asks how many people @US_FDA @minhealthnz #medsafe killed today?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice
Were the Maori rebels in the New Zealand Land Wars as degenerate as the Confederate States of America?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand
Richard Epstein’s preferred Human Rights Act
25 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of information, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Richard Epstein Tags: British politics, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

All of these social damage estimates are still small and smaller than the cost of the Zero Carbon Bill
24 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism

More than meets the eye here if a mother who had 3 kids taken into care is @Dompost’s most media friendly case study of institutional racism and an enduring legacy of colonisation
20 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: child abuse

The Forbidden History of Unpopular People
20 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness
@ProfSteveKeen 15(?) years of erroneous forecasts of an Oz recession. 1st home grants warded off Minsky recession for 10 years!
19 Jul 2019 4 Comments
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: forecasting errors, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics

Doesn’t this definition collapse under is own weight is Asians outperform the dominant group?
18 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination

Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, pessimism bias, regressive left
Heavy plastic bags and paper bags offset @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism
16 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling

Does @DomPost apply same gate keeping standard to GMOs opponents? Socialists? Recycling? Rent control?
16 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-GMO movement, climate alarmists






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