New Zealand women got the vote in 1893; they got the right to stand for parliament a generation later in 1919. But there has never been a parliamentary party based on gender. That’s because most women do not put being female first and foremost in their lives. Their gender is an accident of birth. So…
It’s the Maori Party that is driving division
It’s the Maori Party that is driving division
14 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: racial discrimination
Warren’s “Warning”: Democratic Senator Explains Thompson was Murdered Because “You Can Only Push People So Far.”
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is under fire for her statement to Joy Reid on MSNBC explaining why Luigi Mangione allegedly murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Warren explained that this was a “warning ” that “you can only push people so far.” After a public outcry, Warren walked back her statement. Yet, the statement captures the […]
Warren’s “Warning”: Democratic Senator Explains Thompson was Murdered Because “You Can Only Push People So Far.”
The NZ Green Investment Fund should be Liquidated for Losing Money that could’ve gone into alleviating Poverty.
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking
Only a few months ago, the Chair of the NZ Green Investment Fund (NZGIF) and Chancellor of the University of Auckland, Cecilia Tarrant, visited my “Law and Economics” class. Why? She’s a lawyer who worked in “structured products” and “real estate finance” at Morgan Stanley in New York – and knows a Kiwi friend of…
The NZ Green Investment Fund should be Liquidated for Losing Money that could’ve gone into alleviating Poverty.
The People’s Front of Judea
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand
Readers who have viewed The Life of Brian (as I have done 20 or so times) will recall how The People’s Front of Judea didn’t just battle the Romans, but also The Judean People’s Front who they regarded as splitters for not being pure enough. I have discovered the real life equivalent – the World […]
The People’s Front of Judea
Kemi Badenoch Talks In Depth
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics Tags: British politics
Ignore the Thatcher comparison. She’s much less combative for a start, it’s still early in her time in politics at the upper levels – in fact she’s only been an MP since 2017 – and she would not be the first very smart person who fails at political leadership, especially when she won’t get a […]
Kemi Badenoch Talks In Depth
Climate change plans include unrealistic land demands: an area larger than the US, says study
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming
Lack of realism isn’t unusual in anything connected to the so-called net zero policies of climate-obsessed governments. The researchers say unsustainable land use is an inevitable future problem given existing plans, largely due to tree-planting and other forestry targets. – – – For the first time, an international team of scientists have calculated the total […]
Climate change plans include unrealistic land demands: an area larger than the US, says study
Greene Case Could Trigger New Georgia Law on Swatting
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was again the victim of a swatting call at her north Georgia home. This call, however, had a lethal difference: an officer was involved in a crash in rushing to the scene to join the bomb squad. A woman was killed. The incident will trigger a new Georgia […]
Greene Case Could Trigger New Georgia Law on Swatting
“This is Not the Time for Balance”: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
13 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, survivor principle Tags: media bias
When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times columnist told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was a “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” A lawfare advocate, […]
“This is Not the Time for Balance”: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary
102 murders in Sweden by children
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order, Sweden
There were 102 murders in Sweden in the last eight months, allegedly committed by children aged 14 or younger. That is a shocking number. Why is it so high. Well in Sweden the age of criminal responsibility is 15. So if you kill someone and are 14 or younger, you can’t be prosecuted. So the […]
102 murders in Sweden by children
#climateemergency
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Has an Anonymous Political Donor to Schools Sabotaged National, ACT & NZ First? Will Children be Educated Not to Vote for them, as of Next Week?
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
The State-owned Broadcaster has just announced, “Every high school in NZ is set to receive a copy of a new book about the Treaty of Waitangi following a surprise donation by an [anonymous] Auckland couple”. One News says the book, “Understanding Te Tiriti”, is “a guide to NZ’s founding document”. Except that’s not the book’s…
Has an Anonymous Political Donor to Schools Sabotaged National, ACT & NZ First? Will Children be Educated Not to Vote for them, as of Next Week?
The Nobel Prize lectures in economics
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
Supreme Court into the political arena again – this time with MACA
12 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
Gary Judd KC writes – This morning the Law Association’s LawNews published my criticisms of the Supreme Court’s purported judgment in the Edwards case under the title The Edwards judgment: a nullity designed to pre-empt Parliament? I explain that what the Court called a judgment is not a judgment at all, but a pronouncement the Court had no jurisdiction to make. […]
Supreme Court into the political arena again – this time with MACA
Indigenous government
11 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination
Grant Duncan writes: Te Pāti Māori have a policy to “establish a Māori Parliament”. According to the NZ Election Study 2020, however, the proposal for a Māori upper house of parliament is only supported by a minority of Māori, let alone others.* This made me look up the data from the 2020 NZES. Net support for a […]
Indigenous government
More on Business Dynamism
11 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, employment law
Over at the Geek Way, Andrew McAfee has created a startling visualization related to entrepreneurship in the US and EU. The Draghi Report on EU competitiveness is generating a small buzz among economists. One startling claim is thatthere is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up…
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