Michael Shellenberger: the lost souls of the green movement — The Brendan O’Neill Show
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-intellectualism, anti-market bias, expressive voting, nuclear energy, pessimism, regressive left, solar power, wind power
Badge of honour
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in administration, defence economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: regressive left

Why so much rule breaking?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order
@AmnestyNZ claims claims Manus island asylum seekers “can never leave” PNG. 42% returned home so Amnesty complains about that too
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: PNG, regressive left

Is this re-imprisonment high or low? @sst_nz @justspeaknz @NZJusticeIdeas @actionstations
29 Nov 2019 Leave a comment

Cost of #globalwarming
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists

1.5C to survive is impractical
27 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, The fatal conceit

A defendant’s right to a fair trial could be jeopardised under new laws – defence lawyer
26 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal procedure, law and order
Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris
26 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political correctness, regressive left
John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare
25 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The curse of the woke
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, movies, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, television Tags: political correctness

Who wishes to speak? @CAPD_freespeech
23 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech
The democracy of Ancient Athens was the birthplace of equal and uninhibited speech. Or Isegoria and parrhesia to the Athenians. Jacob Mchangama guides you through how oratory was central to the idea and practice of Athenian democracy. What Athenian style free speech entailed for ordinary citizens, comedians, philosophers, and orators. How oligarchic coup d’etats twice drowned Athenian free speech in blood and repression. The extreme methods used by Demosthenes to become the greatest orator of antiquity. And of course: the trial of Socrates: Was he a martyr for free speech or an impious and seditious enemy of democracy?
Patrick Michaels on modelling of #globalwarming
22 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, data mining, publication bias

.@_AAAP_ @RMarchNZ @_chloeswarbrick @GarethMP
21 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, urban economics
More @MBIEgovtnz warnings of more homelessness under @JacindaArdern’s fairer tenancy laws
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences




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