New Rule: Nowhere Else to Go | Real Time with @BillMaher
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, television Tags: 2020 presidential election
Richard Posner on public intellectuals
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: fall of communism, useful idiots

Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, endogenous growth theory, envy, superstars, top 1%, wealth taxes

Why ‘Free College’ Is a Terrible Idea
24 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: adverse selection, signalling
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

A Conversation with George P. Shultz and David D. Friedman
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Ronald Reagan
Attention anti-science left @NZGreens (but not @Greens, who praised vaccines as the greatest public health intervention ever)
21 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines

The dangers of wokeness
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

A flaw common to many conspiracy theories
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 9/11, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, Iraq war

The woke so quickly eat their own children | @TheSpinoffTV @adam_currie_nz
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, regressive left
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes





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