Before the fictional musical Borjas-Caplan immigration debate of 2024, there was the non-fictional non-musical Borjas-Caplan immigration debate of 2019. It was an unusual format: Both of us had the floor for over hour each. Borjas:Me:If you pay close attention to my opponent’s presentation, you’ll discover that he’s quite unlike every other critic of immigration. In…
The Borjas-Caplan Immigration Debate
The Borjas-Caplan Immigration Debate
20 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: economics of immigration
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in economic history, International law Tags: economics of borders, maps
‘Energy-Limited Resources’: Huge Swaths Of America Face Blackout Risks If Winter Is Bitter, Grid Watchdog Warns
19 Nov 2024 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog.
‘Energy-Limited Resources’: Huge Swaths Of America Face Blackout Risks If Winter Is Bitter, Grid Watchdog Warns
Hikoi organiser rebuffs Seymour while a bloke named Jones (no, not Shane) says he understands the Māori Party’s frustration
19 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Bob Edlin writes – Associate Justice Minister David Seymour “refused” Morning Report’s invitation to be interviewed on RNZ’s Morning Report, the day after the Treaty Principles Bill he is promoting had passed its first reading in Parliament after “a fiery debate and vote”. No matter. There were plenty of other people all too eager to […]
Hikoi organiser rebuffs Seymour while a bloke named Jones (no, not Shane) says he understands the Māori Party’s frustration
UK Approves $2.5 Billion Funding for Power Link to North Sea Wind Farms
19 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, celebrity technologies, wind power
By Paul Homewood Just another couple of billions of your money! From OilPrice.Com The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem on Friday awarded a $2.5 billion (£2 billion) funding package for a subsea and underground cable between Scotland and northern England that would give North Sea wind farms additional access to […]
UK Approves $2.5 Billion Funding for Power Link to North Sea Wind Farms
How come the new Ministry of Regulation has been taken over by Career Regulators, Mr Seymour?
19 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
America is super excited about the new Department of Government Efficiency that is being set up, headed by Elon Musk and Vivak Ramaswamy. We all know Musk – his achievement was launching a space program at about 1% the cost of NASA’s space program. What had gone wrong at NASA? It had turned into a…
How come the new Ministry of Regulation has been taken over by Career Regulators, Mr Seymour?
Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On?
18 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Yes, outgoing President Biden fell for this scam and sent off billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funds. Put this at the top of President Trump’s agenda: zero this one out. Once it becomes clear that the U.S. isn’t going along any more, maybe we can even save the annual expense of sending thousands of people off to these remote corners of the world.
Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On?
Growing Electric Car Sales Slump In Germany… Ford Cuts Back Production In Cologne Plant
18 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars, Germany
Germany’s Blackout News reports on the ongoing sales slump for in e-cars and how the Ford plant in Cologne is putting its employees on reduced work times (Kurzarbeit). AI generated symbol image (Chat GPT) Currently there’s a “growing crisis in the e-car market” and the production of the Explorer and Capri electric models at the…
Growing Electric Car Sales Slump In Germany… Ford Cuts Back Production In Cologne Plant
Another windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments
18 Nov 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
By Paul Homewood London: 14 November 2024 Another windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments
Another windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments
Local Labor Market Effects of Amazon
18 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, labour economics, labour supply, urban economics
Does the entry of a large employer to a local labor market increase welfare for residents? To answer this question, I analyze the local effects of the dramatic expansion of Amazon’s fulfillment center (FC) network from 2010 onward. I exploit the staggered roll-out of FCs across large U.S. metros in a difference-in-difference framework. I find […]
Local Labor Market Effects of Amazon
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
18 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, financial economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights Tags: Finland, monetary policy
On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland’s government announced a new and very strange policy.All Finns were required to take out a pair of scissors and snip their banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or banknote cutting. Anyone who owned any of the three…
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation
Mum jailed for letting a 10 year old go for a walk
17 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: nanny state
Reason reports: It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in Fannin County, Georgia. She was then fingerprinted, photographed, and dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Her crime? Hours earlier, around noon, Patterson had driven her eldest son […]
Mum jailed for letting a 10 year old go for a walk
Pamela Paul on politics and transgender issues
17 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2024 presidential election, free speech, gender gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
I keep thinking that Pamela Paul, who is consistently heterodox by criticizing the “progressive” left, will be given the boot as a regular NYT op-ed columnist. But I’m happy to see that she’s still in there swinging, this time criticizing the progressive (do I need to keep calling it that?) brand of transgender activism in […]
Pamela Paul on politics and transgender issues
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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