Several disciplines in social sciences have shown that institutions that promote cooperation facilitate mutually beneficial exchanges and generate prosperity. Drawing on these insights, this paper develops a Reservation Economic Freedom Index that classifies institutions on a sample of Indian reservations concerning whether these intuitions will enhance the prosperity of Indians residing on these reservations. The…
Freer Indian reservations prosper more
Freer Indian reservations prosper more
28 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles
Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Net Zero electricity taxes and levies are set to cost British consumers almost £100 billion over the next six years, according to the latest official figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The post Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Net Zero Electricity Fantasies to Cost British Consumers £100 Billion Over Next Six Years
#endoil??!
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics, urban economics
The new government and the Reserve Bank
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: monetary policy
But first a correction. As I noted on Twitter and very briefly on the post itself on Saturday, it seems that the gist of my post on Friday was wrong. The repeal of Labour’s tobacco de-nicotinisation legislation – whatever motivated the parties that championed the change – will leave the flow of tobacco excise revenue […]
The new government and the Reserve Bank
More scary antisemitism in NYC high-school students
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
I never thought I’d live to see the day where a headline like this not only appears, but isn’t that unusual. And the pro-Israel action that got this teacher into trouble is pretty innocuous! The author and owner of the website, Jonathan Turley, is a professor at George Washington University Law School, a prolific author,…
More scary antisemitism in NYC high-school students
Those who have courage take responsibility, they don’t blame.
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Mosab Hassan Yousef is a Palestinian who worked undercover for Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet from 1997 to 2007. e was born in Ramallah, a city 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a Hamas co-founder. The title is taken from a speech he gave a few weeks ago at […]
Those who have courage take responsibility, they don’t blame.
BRIAN EASTON: Peters as Minister
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
A previous column looked at Winston Peters biographically. This one takes a closer look at his record as a minister, especially his policy record. Brian Easton writes – 1990-1991: Minister of Māori Affairs. Few remember Ka Awatea as a major document on the future of Māori policy; there is not even an entry in Wikipedia. The impression […]
BRIAN EASTON: Peters as Minister
Climate Protestors Blockade a Port, Demand a 75% Coal Tax
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
“Rising Tide” are a small group of Aussie radicals who are trying to stand out in a crowded marketplace of climate extremist groups. The post Climate Protestors Blockade a Port, Demand a 75% Coal Tax first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Climate Protestors Blockade a Port, Demand a 75% Coal Tax
Just Another Nasty Evil
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
leftist ugly shriveled autistic cult leader who turns out to be a raving Anti- Semite. Why am I not surprised? Two years ago the idiot Anglican Dean of Bunbury Cathedral used a video address by her as a sermon. I no longer attend.
Just Another Nasty Evil
Global Cooling Science
27 Nov 2023 1 Comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
In the above recent video, Dr. David Dilley explains how natural climate cycles portend Global Cooling in the near future despite any human effort to keep up the warming. The discussion is wide-ranging, starting with his background and credentials, and covering climate political agendas and media distortions. My excerpted transcription below focuses on the science […]
Global Cooling Science
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński (1978)
27 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
‘Dear friend, of course I remember. Wasn’t it just yesterday? Yesterday, but a century ago. In this city, but on a planet that is now far away. How all these things get confused: times, places, the world broken in pieces, not to be glued back together. Only the memory…’ (T.K.-B., a former courtier in the […]
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński (1978)
David Seymour: Treaty principles, Pharmac, and being minister for regula…
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, public economics
MICHAEL BASSETT: A NEW MINISTRY – AT LAST
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Like most people, I was getting heartily sick of all the time being wasted over the coalition negotiations. During the first three weeks Winston grinned like a Cheshire cat, certain he’d be needed; Chris Luxon wasted time in lifting the phone to Winston and, still in campaign mode, visited the Chelsea Sugar Works rather than…
MICHAEL BASSETT: A NEW MINISTRY – AT LAST
Douglas Murray on popular culture
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, movies, Music, television
“To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?” ― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray on popular culture
Coleman Hughes attacks comparisons between Palestine and the struggle of blacks for freedom in South Africa and America
26 Nov 2023 1 Comment
Coleman Hughes has published this piece in two places: on his own Substack site, and at the Free Press. Since I first noticed it at the latter site, I’ll put the screenshot for the FP version below (click it to read), but you can also access it on his own site here (be sure to […]
Coleman Hughes attacks comparisons between Palestine and the struggle of blacks for freedom in South Africa and America
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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