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Under the shy Labour voter theory, countries with low turnouts should have right-wing governments and countries with high turnouts should have left-wing governments. Do they?
Voter turnout among voting age people
Turkey 86%
Sweden 83
France 71
Mexico 65
UK 61
US 54pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015… http://t.co/lmMcqqM4JD—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 01, 2015
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: activists, British economy, British politics, do gooders, expressive voting, living wage, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Do Living Wage advocates realise it helps richer households more than poorer ones? My take: telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget… … http://t.co/YPTB6v7tSB—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) July 10, 2015
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in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Canada, doing business, rule of law, World Bank
Figure 1: Doing Business in the USA, Canada, World Bank rankings, 2014
Source: Doing Business – Measuring Business Regulations – World Bank Group.
It’s easier to do business in the USA and Canada because of the difficulties with construction permits and getting electricity and few more problems with enforcing contracts and registering property. It is easy to open a business in Canada.
09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, Donald Trump, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
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in industrial organisation, international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, expressive voting, free trade, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
Who favors free trade?
(The affluent.)
nytimes.com/2015/05/28/ups… @BrendanNyhan http://t.co/kojmUWUtH0—
Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 27, 2015
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: British economy, doing business, France, Germany, Italy, World Bank
Figure 1: Starting a business rankings – World Bank Doing Business rankings, OECD countries, 2014
Source: Doing Business – Measuring Business Regulations – World Bank Group.
There is surprising wide range in the World Bank Doing Business ranking of the difficulty and delays in starting a business across the OECD.
Germany is ranked 114 from the world for starting a business. New Zealand is ranked first with the USA, Italy and the UK ranked in the mid 40s in the Doing Business database.
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in economic history, politics - USA, public economics Tags: growth of government, size of government
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in labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents
Figure 1: poverty rates of adults aged 20 to 54 by presence of children, 2004
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in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, politics - USA, transport economics Tags: expressive voting, pollution, tokenism
Environmental damage for EVs appears to be worse in the Midwest and Northeast, where the electricity grid tends to rely on coal power plants.
In places like LA, EVs produce less environmental damage because the city’s air shed traps pollutants from gas cars…
The key is where the source of the electricity all-electric cars. If it comes from coal, electric cars produce 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than gas, because of the pollution made in generating the electricity,
via A New Analysis of U.S. Counties Shows Where Electric Vehicles Cause More Pollution Than Gas Cars – CityLab and CityLab shows how electric cars can be WORSE for the environment than gas-guzzling vehicles | Daily Mail Online.
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: war against terror
#Dailychart: For the first time in 14 years, America is not engaged in a major ground war econ.st/1TeK8oR http://t.co/qUmjCIDQaQ—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) June 11, 2015
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics, Syria, war against terror
A weak ISIS and a weak U.S. strategy: wapo.st/1H5LE4i http://t.co/3IpQclcSvg—
Post Graphics (@PostGraphics) July 07, 2015
08 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: obsolete military technology, Russia
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in politics - USA Tags: voter demographics
% Republican
White evangelical 68%
White 49%
Gen. public 39%
Hispanic 26%
Asian 23%
Black 11%people-press.org/2015/04/07/a-d… http://t.co/DOLFJzCezu—
Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 07, 2015
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