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.

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My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice

Paywalled at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12260923

Another hypocrisy shared by all religions

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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After only 227 pages does @NZComCom reveal its criteria for markets predisposed to collusion

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: , ,

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

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags:

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

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: , ,

@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

by Jim Rose in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags:

@NZComCom sees this price discounting as evidence of a stable cartel or tight oligopoly

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: ,

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

by Jim Rose in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags:

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

by Jim Rose in energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags:

@NZComCom raises middle digit to @jamespeshaw’s @JulieAnneGenter’s electric car dreams @TaxpayersUnion

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: ,

Despite itself, @nzcomcom reveals rampant secret price discounting in the petrol cartel/oligopoly

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: , ,

Despite itself, @nzcomcom shows free entry into petrol supply because independents can import as much as they need

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle Tags: ,

Q+A with Sir Roger Douglas

20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, welfare reform Tags:

Doug Allen hinting that gun laws should apply only to men

20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: , ,

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