The case against waiting for trade agreements
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free trade agreements, globalisation, preferential trading agreements, regional trade agreements, trade creation, trade version, unilateral free trade
Solar and wind power – forever just round the corner
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, creative destruction, green rent seeking, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
The graduate premium for New Zealand is at the bottom of the OECD ladder
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium
Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2001
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, gender wage gap
Figure 1: Gender wage gap (unadjusted % difference between median wages of male and female full-time employees)
Source: OECD StatExtract.
Apathetic Labour voters – New Zealand myths and realities
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: shy Labour voters, voter demographics
The key skill of consultants
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: charlatans, consultants, market for experts
Where Cannabis is legal
03 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: marijuana decriminalisation, meddlesome preferences, medical marijuana decriminalisation, nanny state
Map of where Cannabis is legal (2014)
From: bit.ly/1uZ2uvq http://t.co/e0W7fJ8FZC—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 30, 2015
45% of Australia and New Zealand are immigrants or their children
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: Australia, economics of immigration
The media history of climate change scares
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmism, global cooling, global warming, media bias
New Zealand is an anomaly in the OECD Better Life index
02 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: New Zealand, OECD Better Life Index
OECD Better Life Index correlates with GDP
But US lower than poorer countries
& NZL higher than richer countries http://t.co/yrTCnO1B0l—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 26, 2015
The Great Escape in life expectancies over the last 40 years
01 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: life expectancies, mortality rates, The Great Escape
Anthony Downs on the unsustainability of buses and trains as compared to cars
30 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: Anthony Downs, antimarket bias, expressive voting, Leftover Left, makework bias, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, rational ignorance, rational irrationality



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