
Investment strategy of @NZSuperFund is against all the odds @TaxpayersUnion
10 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in financial economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, picking winners

Why @jamespeshaw is afraid to commission an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a percentage of NZ GDP @mfe_news
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism

From David Romer’s graduate macroeconomics textbook
Day 2 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: a second 15 cent bag to recycle as a shoe bag in suitcases
02 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state, virtue signaling

Day 1 of @EugenieSage’s #plasticbagfascism: single use bag for meat, 15 cent thick bag that might recycle as a shoe bag in suitcase. 15 cent bag isn’t worth putting aside
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Green fascism, recycling, The fatal conceit

@jamespeshaw should welcome the new year by commissioning an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a % of NZ GDP? What is he afraid of learning?
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

@keri_mills is spot on in @TheSpinoffTV: always question the motives of anyone who blames someone for the wrongs of their ancestors
28 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: crime and punishment, economics of colonialism

Anti-science @NZGreens’ wishy washy choice policy sides with the anti-vaccination movement
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-vaccination movement, child mortality, The Great Escape, vaccines

Jonathan Pie’s On Cultural Appropriation
18 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness
Should Trans Women Compete With Women?
18 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in gender, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics
Note to a jetlagged @jamespeshaw from William Nordhous
16 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, free riding, game theory

But @jamespeshaw @mfe_news honestly believe it is too hard to estimate the cost of global warming as a percentage of NZ GDP
12 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate activists

Is slippery @jamespeshaw just incurious or is @mfe_news just dead on its feet about the economics of #globalwarming?
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate activists

Resident criminals clean up their act bigtime in anticipation of fracking boom job. Most crims are forward thinking @sst_nz
02 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, energy economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order


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