Should social media platforms censor hate speech? | Nadine Strossen | Big Think
23 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, free speech
How was the war on poverty going?
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
the Full-income Poverty Measure estimates the share of people in poverty using a post-tax, (comprehensive or full) post-transfer definition of income. Similar to the Official Poverty Measure, it includes market income (wages and salaries, self-employment and business income, farm income, retirement income from pensions, dividends, interest, rent and alimony) and cash transfers (Aid to Families with Dependent Children/Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Social Security and workers’ compensation). It then adds the market value of health and non-health in-kind transfers (food stamps/SNAP, subsidized school lunches, rental housing assistance, and Medicare and Medicaid) as well as the market value of employer-provided health insurance. It subtracts Federal income and payroll taxes but adds tax credits including the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Additional Child Tax Credit (the refundable portion of the CTC) based on estimated tax liabilities using NBER Taxsim 9.3 (Feenberg and Coutts 1993). We impute several of these income sources in the early years of our analysis because they were not collected in the CPS-ASEC.
From https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/12855/evaluating-the-success-of-president-johnsons-war-on-poverty-revisiting-the-historical-record-using-a-full-income-poverty-measure via http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/03/us-poverty-over-time-how-to-compare.html
Green Energy Revolution Can’t Meet America’s Energy Demands | @ManhattanInst
19 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: solar power, The fatal conceit, wind power
What is a regulatory taking?
16 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law, regulatory taking
Rents are unaffordable for one reason alone
15 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics
.@ProfDBernstein reminds the woke of who gains from hate speech laws
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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