
Antidiscrimination conundrum for the Left
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: antidiscrimination laws, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unexpected consequences

Jason Riley On “False Black Power?”
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, regressive left
Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Is @BernieSanders A Democratic Socialist? Or Just a Socialist?
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election
Voting with their feet @AOC @BernieSanders from the Venona Tapes
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 2020 presidential election, Korean war

Has @greenpeaceusa @oxfam ever campaigned against indoor air pollution caused by energy poverty?
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - USA

Class war cancelled @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax havens

Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

Are there no competent baby boomer Democratic party politicians?! Two of these old geezers are in the race solely to stop crazy @BernieSanders losing the House
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election

Nanny-in-Chief
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
It is not easy to agree on what is green! @Greens @NZGreens @mfe_news @greenpeaceusa
02 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking

From Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Costly and Ineffective Investment Strategy by Daniel R. Fischel (2014)



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