Ranapera Taumata is a Third Striker. He murdered his girlfriend in 2019 by beating her to death with his bare hands. The Judge summarised: Over the next 17 minutes or so, inside the sleepout you inflicted a prolongedand violent assault on Ms Hira, rendering her unconscious and injured. At about1.15 am you dragged her outside; she […]
Meet a (Won’t be a striker at all) – former Third Striker # 1
Meet a (Won’t be a striker at all) – former Third Striker # 1
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Maori Party (with “disgust”) draws attention to Chhour’s race after the High Court rules on Waitangi Tribunal’s summons
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Buzz from the Beehive A statement from Children’s Minister Karen Chhour – yet to be posted on the Government’s official website – arrived in Point of Order’s email in-tray last night. It welcomes the High Court ruling on whether the Waitangi Tribunal can demand she appear before it. It does not spell out what the […]
Maori Party (with “disgust”) draws attention to Chhour’s race after the High Court rules on Waitangi Tribunal’s summons
“Known unto God”
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Visiting war graves in France and Belgium is moving and sobering. They are immaculately kept, thanks to the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. They are peaceful, in stark contrast to the noise and brutality that those buried there endured. They are a tragic reminder to the tragedy of war and what so many […]
“Known unto God”
Is Climate Change to Blame for Natural Disasters? The Science and Politics of Extreme Weather
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves
25 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It’s nice to see that Ben Marlow has finally woken up to reality, after years of promoting Net Zero: For an industry built on the quiet purr of its expensive technology, the sound of the electric car market screeching to a halt is too loud not […]
The West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves
Bjorge brings calm to climate conversation
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Is the Commerce Commission for consumers or suppliers
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation Tags: competition law, merger law enforcement
Max Salmon writes: Last week the Commerce Commission announced its concern with a proposed merger between Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island. Their concern is a decrease in competition in the market. It sounds crazy when you first hear it, but it’s even weirder when you see what the Commerce Commission is actually worried […]
Is the Commerce Commission for consumers or suppliers
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmism
Eric Crampton writes – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand desperately wants to find reasons to have workstreams in climate change. It makes little sense.
Still no prudential regulation case around climate change
30 Years of Environmental Progress: Is It Time at Last to Be Optimistic? An Earth Day Panel at AEI
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism Tags: The Great Enrichment
Earth Day 2024: Plastics Miracle Saving People and the Planet
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism
Benjamin Zycher celebrates how plastics benefit humans and the environment, in case this earth saver be overlooked by the Greens. His Real Energy article is Earth Day 2024: How Plastic Can the Enviros Get? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. It is Earth Day 2024, an annual exercise in self-applause that always is too much fun because of the inanities, hypocrisies, mendacities, and […]
Earth Day 2024: Plastics Miracle Saving People and the Planet
The War On Cars
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, transport economics, urban economics Tags: electric cars
In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and it will astonish you.
The War On Cars
A Look at the Wacky Transit Industry
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
Today is Earth Day, a day in which we are supposed to celebrate environmentally friendly ideas such as public transit, high-density development, and electric vehicles. My report published last week revealed that the transit lobby has hijacked affordable housing funds so that, in many cities, most of those funds are … Continue reading →
A Look at the Wacky Transit Industry
“Deactivated”: Columbia Reportedly Blocks Jewish Professor from Access to Campus
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, International law, labour economics, law and economics, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Middle-East politics, racial discrimination, regressive left, war against terror
Professor Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was reportedly denied access to the main campus on Friday as his school ID was “deactivated” during the recent protests over the Israeli-Gaza conflict. What was equally concerning is that the university did so for his own protection out of concern that, as an outspoken […]
“Deactivated”: Columbia Reportedly Blocks Jewish Professor from Access to Campus
A weak Three Strikes law
24 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Nicole McKee announced: The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. The return is welcome in principle, but what is being proposed is actually pretty weak and even ineffective. Cover the same 40 serious violent and sexual offences as the former legislation, […]
A weak Three Strikes law
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