
#fakenews from @AOC @SenWarren @BernieSanders
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, top 1%

Rand Paul: End America’s War’s
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Iraq war, Syrian Civil War, war against terror, War in Afghanistan
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







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