Life Inside a Panzer – Tank Life Part 1 – WW2 Special
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Effective marginal tax rates, and work incentives for older people
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, public economics
Tax rates matter for work incentives. When tax rates are high, there is less incentive for people to work. They may pass up additional work and choose leisure time instead. However, it isn’t just taxes that matter. It is the loss of other entitlements as well. All of these are bound up in what is…
Effective marginal tax rates, and work incentives for older people
Old-School New York Hot Lather Shave with Straight Razor
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture
The Right Move Against Hamas Was Not To Make One.
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu (544 ─ 496BC)ISRAEL’S LEGAL RIGHT to strike back at Hamas is unchallengeable. No nation, having suffered the sort of horrific attack unleashed upon Israel by Hamas terrorists on 7 October 2023,…
The Right Move Against Hamas Was Not To Make One.
Florida’s “Deactivation” of Pro-Palestinian Group is Unconstitutional
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in USA Today on the “deactivation order” issued to a controversial pro-Palestinian group at the University of Florida. The order in my view is unconstitutional. We need to focus on deterring acts of destruction and any violent threats or acts on our campuses. We can maintain a safe space for all…
Florida’s “Deactivation” of Pro-Palestinian Group is Unconstitutional
AASLE 2021 Bob Gregory Lecture – Claudia Goldin
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
My Chris Williamson Interview
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Several good friends warned me not to publish Don’t Be a Feminist. I appreciate their concern, but I’m glad I kept my own counsel. Here’s my interview with Chris Williamson on the book and beyond. Apparently he’s kind of a big deal…
My Chris Williamson Interview
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part IV.
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Under the English common law doctrine of jure uxoris, the property and titles belonging to a woman became her husband’s upon marriage, and it was feared that any man she married would thereby become King of England in fact and name. Because of this common law, and with Mary being England’s first Queen Regnant of […]
November 17, 1516: Birth of Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Part IV.
Sunstein redefines “Liberal”
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Cass Sunstein has a lovely New York Times essay that tries to give us back the word “Liberal.” I hope it works. “Liberal” from “Libertas” means, at bottom, freedom. In the 19th century, “liberals” were devoted to personal, economic, and increasing social freedom from government restraint. “Conservatives” wanted to maintain aristocratic privileges, and government interventions in the traditional way…
Sunstein redefines “Liberal”
Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?
23 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, urban economics Tags: Japan
It is common lore in YIMBY circles that Tokyo is such an inexpensive city because Tokyo/Japan has allowed so much freedom to build. Sometimes it is mentioned that Japanese building and regulatory decisions are made at higher levels than the strictly local, which lowers the power of the NIMBYs to restrict building. I don’t doubt […]
Is Tokyo really a YIMBY success story?
Compounding Problems: Wind Industry’s Fortunes Never Looked So Woeful
22 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
2023 will go down as the year that the wind industry began its inevitable implosion. Unable to deliver power as and when power consumers need it (therefore generating electricity with no commercial value), the wind industry was only ever the product of mandates, tax breaks and massive subsidies. Call it a Ponzi scheme, call it […]
Compounding Problems: Wind Industry’s Fortunes Never Looked So Woeful
Australia as seen from Tasmania
22 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, Tasmania
“Windfall” taxes
22 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
Opening The Post on Monday morning it was as if the 2026 election campaign had gotten underway already, even as we sit waiting for the new government to form. Under the headline “An answer to National’s revenue gap” was a column by the CTU economist, and former Grant Robertson adviser, Craig Renney suggesting that National […]
“Windfall” taxes
Look who wants to debate Treaty issues now
22 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand Tags: constitutional law
Seymour’s proposed referendum has made discussion seem a very attractive alternative. Graham Adams writes — After the revolutionary He Puapua report was brought to public attention for the first time in April 2021, Judith Collins and David Seymour did their best to spark discussion about its implications — especially with regard to the threat that […]
Look who wants to debate Treaty issues now
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