Maori incomes up 88% since 1994; Pasifika incomes up 78%; Pakeha incomes up only 63%
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand
.@thinkprogress explains why @jamespeshaw doesn’t want to know the cost of #globalwarming as % of NZ GDP
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists
Why The Polls Keep Getting It Wrong – Cheddar Explains
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
$850m lost in benefit fraud @CarmelSepuloni @_AAAP_ @MaramaDavidson @RMarchNZ @TaxpayersUnion
15 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
The estimates are based on the self-reported benefit fraud in the 2012 Chapple and Crichton paper which must be a minimum bound because you would expect at least some benefit fraudsters to be discreet in their dealings with government and the statistics bureau.
Computed from 2018 Budget papers, WINZ benefit data, Chapple and Crichton (2012), Chapple and Boston (2014). See too https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/benefit_sanctions
How many beneficiaries make fraudulent claims? @CarmelSepuloni @_AAAP_ @MaramaDavidson @RMarchNZ
14 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, public economics
What do women and men go to prison for in NZ?
11 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
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@Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Regressive Left
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace
These US estimates are still small @jamespeshaw @mfe_news; mostly from loss of life which is the easiest to fix by mitigation and adaptation
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
From S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Even runaway climate change of 6 to 8°C reduces GDP by by 2100! less than 10%
US has county level estimates but @jamespeshaw can’t estimate cost of global warming for NZ! @mfe_news says it is too hard!!
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand
S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369 Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp
Summing over 10 years still left the cost of global warming as tiny
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists
.@NZGreens are for net neutrality so it must be a bad idea. Easy policy shortcut?
07 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: net neutrality
Reply of @NZTreasury to my Privacy Act request for a statement of correction to be attached to incorrect personal information
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
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@NZPSA should have killed my op-ed with silence. Now have another chance to go at them again.
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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