
Richard Posner (1997) on critical race theory
17 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner Tags: Age of Enlightenment, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left

Bjorn Lomborg: False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions And Fails To Fix The Planet
15 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists
Too stoned or drunk to turn around from long queue of cars at border?
13 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: crime and punishment, economics of pandemics, law and order

Jordan Peterson: Sean Plunket
11 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
‘Climate Change Is Real, But It’s Not the End of the World’ Michael Shellenberger
10 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
But @NZHumanRights refutes @KaraninaSumeo; pay transparency doesn’t matter to gender wage gap if few bargain outside of big end of town
08 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/new-research-reveals-large-number-kiwis-are-experiencing-unequal-pay/
WOKE Utopia
06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Cancel culture’s worst nightmare
05 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, pessimism bias, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left

Anti-science @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
04 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: anti-GMOs movement, Anti-Science left, anti-vaccination movement, climate alarmists, pessimism bias, philosophy of science, regressive left, vaccines

#OTD #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @Greenpeace @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
03 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias

Discretionary trusts with few beneficiaries should add a @NZGreen MP as a discretionary beneficiary so they must pay a wealth tax on their trust wealth. 325,000 trusts own houses in NZ
30 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, public economics Tags: envy, regressive left, wealth tax




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