Trigger warning for the Twitter Left
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: antimarket bias, endogenous growth theory, expressive voting, laffer curve, Leftover Left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and human capital, taxation and investment, taxation and the labour supply, top 1%, Twitter left
Alcohol consumption per adult across countries
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: alcohol regulation, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
It’s a worry when James Hansen is talking sense on energy policy
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, green rent seeking, James Hansen, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power
James Hansen just totally destroyed Hillary Clinton's climate plan. goo.gl/N8n9Cz http://t.co/ef8bElDBBn—
Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 29, 2015
The living wage as an application of Director’s Law
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: British politics, Director's Law, expressive voting, living wage, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
OBR's idea of who will benefit from National Living Wage http://t.co/ztxfW906Gg—
James Bartholomew (@JGBartholomew) July 08, 2015
Cecil
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
Before #CecilTheLion, hunter Kendall Jones said hunting is crucial to conservation. False. bit.ly/1tvr5wj http://t.co/SV5FeANMsE—
(@PolitiFact) July 30, 2015PHOTO: #ZebraLivesMatter http://t.co/fUGjFKfJXP—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 03, 2015
| Peter Klein |
No doubt you’ve heard about Walter Palmer, the American dentist who shot the lion, “Cecil,” in Zimbabwe, pushing aside Sir Tim Hunt as the Internet’s Most Hated Person. (Aside from calling Palmer cruel and depraved — even wishing his death by bow and arrow — some are labeling him a sociopath, which makes me wonder, are lions now considered members of society? Orgheads?)
I don’t hunt and have no particular emotional attachment to lions, so I find the outrage level bewildering. However, I think this can be a teachable moment. Specifically, there are lessons here about trophy hunting and endangered species. Not surprisingly to anyone who has studied property-rights economics, there is evidence that allowing trophy hunting is a good means of protecting endangered species. This is a version of the general argument that defining and enforcing property rights in scarce resources, including wildlife, provides incentives…
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‘The Simpsons’ predicted President Trump way back in 2000
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: Donald Trump, The Simpsons 2016 presidential election
#TPPA The first Paul Krugman on trade agreements that level the playing field behind the border
29 Jul 2015 2 Comments
Has there been any labour market deregulation ever in the UK, Australia or New Zealand?
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, unions Tags: Australia, British economy, employment law, employment law regulation
Major deregulations and re-regulations of the labour market in Australia and New Zealand did not move the employment protection inducts around that much in figure 1. All is been quiet on the labour market regulation front of the UK pretty much since the index was started.
Figure 1: OECD employment protection index (EPI), strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, 1990 – 2013
Source: OECD StatExtract.
The Work Choices legislation in Australia in 2006 was looked upon by the OECD as a somewhat minor deregulation not much more in scale than the deregulation introduced in 2008 with the election of the National Party led government.
Nobody told the unions that.
Congress is more polarized than any time since the 1970s
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: political polarisation
And it's not just the public – Congress is more polarized than any time since the 1970s: pewrsr.ch/SCAUr3 http://t.co/ccjXByaTdY—
Drew DeSilver (@DrewDeSilver) June 12, 2014
State legislators’ salaries vary wildly across the USA
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: politician's pay
State legislators’ salaries vary wildly across the country. vox.com/2014/7/30/5949… (via @TheEconomist) http://t.co/i8ZsplNST6—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) July 10, 2015
Measles cases and measles deaths in the USA
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics, politics - USA Tags: measles commonly anti-vaccination movement, The Grade Escape, The Great Fact, vaccines
Digital poverty in America is less than 3% for young adults
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 10-90 lag, Digital poverty, technology diffusion, The Great Enrichment
15% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? pewrsr.ch/1HYkSgM http://t.co/vL6uRuz5iK—
PewResearch FactTank (@FactTank) July 28, 2015
Down and out in America
28 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, living standards, The Great Enrichment
A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, today 1945
28 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building on the morning of July 28, 1945. http://t.co/C2UcflEc36—
History Pictures (@CombinedHistory) April 21, 2015
Taxes on minimum wage earners across the OECD area
28 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: earned income tax credits, family tax credits, in-work tax credits, taxation and the labour supply
#MinimumWage shd be combined w/ #tax policies to help both workers & their employers; see bit.ly/1KfRNOB http://t.co/8klfJXmY4s—
(@OECD) July 25, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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