Peter Tatchell is crazy brave: fearless and principled
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in liberalism Tags: free speech
Economics of climate change innovation | @BjornLomborg
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, fisheries economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
Current account deficits show the dangers of collecting statitics. Politicians will start worrying about them and want to regulate them
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
Could We Launch Spacecraft with a Giant Space Gun?
09 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in transport economics Tags: space
Christopher Hitchens on Obama’s Peace Prize
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in defence economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: virtue signalling
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination
Collective narcissism and identity politics: No empathy required.
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
I’m not writing this to gain favour with a certain political tribe, or to provoke people, although I’m sure there will be a range of reactions to this. I’m chiefly trying to make sense of all this craziness that continues in the west particularly on college campuses. This thought initially permeated into my brain while watching a video of the Evergreen College collective breakdown and the witch-hunt of Bret Weinstein (Professor of Evolutional Biology) in 2017. For those of you who haven’t heard about this, I’ve shared a video below to give an example of the type of antics that are occurring regularly on college campuses around the ‘anglosphere’. This episode is much like the psychotic Yale university ‘Halloween costume’ incident. I still find it difficult to understand such behaviour, as well as acknowledging that it’s disturbingly interesting. It also boggles my mind why education facilities and government entities continue…
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A big difference in criminal offending in the USA
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Phil Twyford (remember?) is working on rent controls but maybe he should dump the idea
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
The Bay of Plenty Times – in an article which revealed how taxpayers are bearing the brunt of Tauranga’s social housing crisis – brought rental costs into the picture.
Among the data uncovered by the newspaper, three community housing providers have been paid almost $17m towards income-related rent subsidies in the last two financial years . These subsidies are the difference between market rents and the amount paid by a tenant in income-related rent.
Four transitional housing providers which provided warm, dry and safe short-term accommodation received about $2.3m over the same timeframe and $1m was spent on emergency housing special needs grants including motels, $624,000 of this mainly to motels in Tauranga from October 2018 to December 2018.
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True tax is love is a low top marginal income tax rate
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
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