Jordan Peterson: Do Marxists Really Have Sympathy for the Working Class?
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: envy, regressive left
“Us” isn’t inclusive! No room for the superiority of Western values: democracy is better, free speech is better, equality of the sexes is better.
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Labour supply in the Indian caste system
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of religion, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: caste system, India, religious discrimination
Cost of #globalwarming
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Notes on The Machinery of Freedom / David Friedman
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
Chagnon: the noble savage myth
27 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: nobel savage
Demonetization in India: Superfluous discovery and money laundering @srajagopalan
27 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, offering behaviour, unintended consequences
Ten things you need to know about a hung parliament
27 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
We know there will be an election on 12 December, but the outcome, in terms of parliamentary seats and who will form the next government, remains uncertain. Robert Hazell and Harrison Shaylor answer some of the key questions about what happens if the election creates another hung parliament.
With an increasingly volatile electorate, and uncertain forecasts in the polls, it is possible the 2019 election will result in another hung parliament. Although bookmakers currently have a Conservative majority as comfortably the most likely election result, and the Conservatives are currently polling around 11 points ahead of Labour, a hung parliament is by no means out of the question. It would be the third hung parliament in four general elections. This explains what lessons can be learned from our previous experience of hung parliaments at Westminster and around the world. It addresses questions such as how a new government is formed…
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Cuomo’s Cover-Up: Colossal Cost of New York’s Wind Power Subsidies Finally Revealed
27 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
Why are subsidies needed if wind has a lower marginal cost
The wind industry is built on lies and runs on subsidies. But, in a rare turn of events, an effort to cover up the cost of those subsidies has come unstuck, in grand style.
Initially, Andrew Cuomo’s cronies put forward a lowball figure for the cost of subsidies to wind power in New York State, which drew attention from the Empire Center’s Ken Girardin.
In a blog post, Girardin sought to get behind those figures (based on rubbery accounting) and calculate precisely what Cuomo’s wind power obsession is likely to cost New Yorkers over the long haul.
Cuomo’s propaganda squad launched a missive against Ken Girardin, claiming that he’d misled his readers.
Turns out that Girardin’s estimates were, if anything, light on; in fact, the ultimate cost of subsidies to wind power in New York State are greater than Girardin’s estimates and magnitudes greater than Cuomo’s understated figures.
State blows…
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