New Rule: The War on the West | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, television, TV shows Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion well worth watching
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, top 1%, zoning
NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: nanny state, political correctness, regressive left
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness From the Telegraph: NatWest is telling customers to stop eating meat and to drive electric cars after combing their accounts to calculate their carbon footprint. A “Carbon Footprint Tracker” on the bank’s mobile app uses the transaction data of customers and makes recommendations on how […]
NatWest combs customer accounts – and tells them to go vegetarian
Quotation of the Day…
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics
Tweet… is from pages 86-87 of Georgetown University philosopher Jason Brennan’s excellent 2014 book, Why Not Capitalism?: So, to summarize, there is a range of reasons to have private property, even in utopian conditions. People get value from having objects that they can use at will, without having to ask permission from others. They get…
Quotation of the Day…
The Limited Effects of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics Tags: nanny state, sugar taxes
Here’s the case for imposing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages: 1) Obesity is a major public health problem, through its effects on diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, certain cancers, and mental health; 2) Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is an outsized contributor to obesity; 3) Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages will raise the cost that consumers pay, and thus…
The Limited Effects of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Convincing evidence for human evolution
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism Tags: evolutionary biology
I occasionally get questions like this one: “What do you consider the most convincing evidence for evolution?” My answer is usually “the fossil record combined with dating methods,” but I often add that “the evidence from biogeography is so convincing that I’ve never seen a creationist even try to rebut it.” (You can see some […]
Convincing evidence for human evolution
South Africa’s Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, energy economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: South Africa
CUNY Adjunct Professor Shown Tearing Down Hamas Hostage Flyers
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
Yesterday, I posted the account of one of my children who followed another student at George Washington University as she tore down flyers of the Hamas hostages from poles around campus. The vandalism near our law school is occurring across the country as activists seek to prevent others from expressing their views on the war. […]
CUNY Adjunct Professor Shown Tearing Down Hamas Hostage Flyers
The Democrats’ Anti-Semitism Problem | Wonder Land: WSJ Opinion
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Middle-East politics, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, war against terror
Bonus Quotation of the Day…
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, Thomas Sowell Tags: regressive left
Tweet… is from page 38 of Thomas Sowell’s 2023 book, Social Justice Fallacies: The Progressives of the early twentieth century shared more than a name with Progressives of a later era, extending on into our own times. While these different generations of Progressives reached opposite conclusions on the reasons for racial differences in economic and…
Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Māori doctors reckon they have the right medicine for the Middle East – but will they be joining Médecins Sans Frontières?
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
The Māori Party and Māori medics have something in common: they have diagnosed what’s gone wrong in the Middle East and prescribed a remedy for the Israel-Hamas conflict. They are pressing for a Free Palestine. The mainstream media seem not to have noticed that the Māori medical professionals have taken sides in a matter with […]
Māori doctors reckon they have the right medicine for the Middle East – but will they be joining Médecins Sans Frontières?
More Evidence for Trump’s Corporate Tax Reform, Part I
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic growth, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: taxation and investment
I’m very critical of bad policies we got during the Trump years, most notably profligacy and protectionism. But I shower praise on the good policies, such as the 2017 tax legislation (especially the lower corporate tax rate and the curtailing of the state and local tax deduction). Today, we’re going to focus on the positive. […]
More Evidence for Trump’s Corporate Tax Reform, Part I
Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Always Deliver Higher Power Prices
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Looking to thank someone for your latest power bill, then look no further than subsidised wind and solar. The ‘unreliables’ are the principal reason why retail power bills are rising at unprecedented rates. Behind the curtain, there are a number of forces at work which, over the last decade or so, have entirely upended the […]
Why Intermittent Wind & Solar Always Deliver Higher Power Prices
No Green Energy Future Without Coal
03 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Teresa Mull writes at American Spectator Why ‘dirty’ coal is vital to a ‘clean’ green future. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. ‘Any time you have energy, you have to dig something out of the ground’ The under reported truth, however, is that coal is key to the continuation of civilization as […]
No Green Energy Future Without Coal
Recent Comments