
Why are economists the only occupation whose political bias is questioned?
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA

Voters still have short fingers and long pockets despite @Greenpeace @jamespeshaw ramping up their #ClimateEmergency rhetoric
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmism
From http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx
The fight to rethink (and reinvent) nuclear power @voxdotcom
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: atomic energy, climate alarmism, nuclear power
Climate Alarmism Isn’t Rational
09 Sep 2019 8 Comments
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Is there a social cost to prematurely or erroneously denouncing a political opponent as a racist?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left

Ignorance is strength for the woke left
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, 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

Boys competing in girls’ sports? It’s time to stand for fair play @aniobrien @HJJoyceEcon
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Donald Dewey’s Yale Law Journal 1978 Review of Robert Bork’s Antitrust Paradox @sandeepvaheesan @ProMarket_org @openmarkets
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: competition law

Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, protectionism, tariffs and quotas, trade wars
Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination
Anyone this fragile should not be making long-term decisions
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
The solution to the #ClimateEmergency is at hand but is ignored because it might work @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, Thomas Schelling Tags: international public goods






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