
Even small minimum wage increase have ambiguous employment effects under monopsonistic competition
16 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Overdue @jamespeshaw
13 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism, The fatal conceit

Recharging times on electric cars are crap @NZGreens @Greenpeace
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: electric cars

Marijuana prohibition is racist and criminal, harms kids, and ruins lives | Johann Hari @nzdrug
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: marijuana decrimilization, unintended consequences
Enlightenment started as blasphemy
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness

@JordanBPeterson Rebuts Female Quota Once And For All
09 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
How can food insecurity be so linked to obesity but still be a meaningful measure of deprivation? The poor were thin in my day.
08 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: child poverty, economics of obesity

Whole paper bag for 1 tiny piece of ginger under @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism
06 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: offsetting behavior, recycling, The fatal conceit

And the @NZGreens @maramardavidson still wonder why some kids are taken into care
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

Car is now a 3 seater. Must store in back seat so I can see if stockpile has ran out under @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

@_AAAP_prioritises virtue signalling over effective lobbying for more for the poorest mothers on the benefit
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

@OECD via @GarethShute @TheSpinoffTV show how small the cost of #globalwarming will be. GDP will several fold larger in 2100 so roll with the punches is best policy
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism




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