
@NZComCom’s petrol pricing report is an ode to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm of decades and decades gone by
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law

@NZComCom sees this price discounting as evidence of a stable cartel or tight oligopoly
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, competition law
If so, you wonder how @NZComCom explains the survival of: legacy media, dot.com industries, MySpace, Yahoo, Uber, airlines and new or high fixed cost industries. More on that later
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: competition law

I don’t see the variation here that the @NZComCom does (except that long thin countries are at the top)
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: competition law

@NZComCom raises middle digit to @jamespeshaw’s @JulieAnneGenter’s electric car dreams @TaxpayersUnion
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: electric cars, The fatal conceit

Despite itself, @nzcomcom reveals rampant secret price discounting in the petrol cartel/oligopoly
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: cartel enforcement, cartel theory, competition law

Q+A with Sir Roger Douglas
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, welfare reform Tags: Rogernomics
Doug Allen hinting that gun laws should apply only to men
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: criminal deterrence, gun control, law and order

@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Scalia on abortion clinic buffer zones
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: abortion law reform, free speech

#plasticbagfascism comes to @kfcnz: how do you carry 2 drinks if the bag has no handles? Must clasp bag leaving only 1 hand free @eugeniesage?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling

Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit




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