California’s High-Speed Rail Disaster Is a ‘Shot Across the Bow for the Green New Deal’ @AOC
02 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, transport economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Ban the box, no questions on criminal records, increased statistical discrimination against young black male job applicants
01 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of information, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: asymmetric information, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination

Why A Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed Affirmative Action |@nytimes
01 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Well said on the wall between church and state
27 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, politics - USA Tags: Freedom of religion

Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
27 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: Cold War
Why are GMOs Bad? @SciShow
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, fisheries economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, pessimism bias
The 3 Rules of Hate Speech: Free Speech Rules (Episode 2)
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech
John Earl Haynes – Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
24 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: Cold War
Stossel: Jordan Peterson vs. “Social Justice Warriors”
24 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Cultural Marxism, political correctness, regressive left
Some plain truths; woman will be reduced to the second sex again
23 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left

#OTD Jeff Sachs retired as a serious economist
23 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism
Debunkers VS Medicare for All
23 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: health insurance
Has @AOC admitted a living wage rise requires cuts elsewhere in employment or service quality
23 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: expressive voting, virtue signaling

Should the outrage culture tear down statues of socialist party icon Eugene Debs because was he was once a man of his time
22 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, politics - USA

From https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/debs-socialism-race-du-bois-socialist-party-black-liberation/
.@equitablegrowth posted this FYI @AOC @SenSanders on every billionaire is a policy failure
22 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment


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