Power supply
07 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, growth miracles Tags: China
Some Links
07 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, macroeconomics Tags: China, Japan
TweetThe folks at Unleash Prosperity share a chart that shows that Japanese industrial policy – which we Americans a few decades ago were warned by oh so very many pundits, professors, and politicians left, right, and center would propel Japan’s economy to great heights and leave America’s in the dust – was a curse to…
Some Links
Peeni loses in a landslide
06 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
With a third of polling places counted it seems clear Peeni Henare has been thrashed, barely getting half the votes Orini Kaipara is getting. A humiliating loss. Based on this Te Pati Maori could sweep all seven Maori electorates next year.
Peeni loses in a landslide
Claim: Climate “Pragmatism” is Cover for Climate Delay
06 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming
“Pragmatism” allegedly allows politicians to be in favour of climate action without actually having to do anything.
Claim: Climate “Pragmatism” is Cover for Climate Delay
American Humanist vigorously endorses “affirmative care” with no lower age limit
06 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
The American Humanist Association (AHA) is among the most prominent humanist/atheist/skeptical organizations in America, but it’s been getting increasingly “progressive” (read “woke”). You may remember that in 2021 the AHA revoked its “Humanist of the Year” award given to Richard Dawkins 15 years earlier, saying this: Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years […]
American Humanist vigorously endorses “affirmative care” with no lower age limit
The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
06 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - USA
Below is my column in The Hill on the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jackson’s description of opinions as an opportunity for commentary on contemporary issues is a radical departure from long-standing traditions on the Court. While justices have occasionally strayed into extraneous issues, Jackson appears to view her position as giving her a […]
The Judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Prebble on Covid unaccountability
06 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics
Richard Prebble writes: A Royal Commission is our nation’s highest form of inquiry, reserved for the most important issues. To ensure confidence in its findings, commissioners have the power to summon witnesses and take their evidence in public under oath. In my research, apart from health reasons, the only person to have ever refused to […]
Prebble on Covid unaccountability
Law and order – why tougher deportation law might win votes but fail the unreasonableness test
05 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of immigration
Peter Dunne writes – The government has just announced plans to strengthen New Zealand’s immigration laws to make it easier to deport residents convicted of serious criminal offences. Under current law, permanent residents of up to ten years standing who have been convicted of criminal offences can be deported after release from prison. However, the […]
Law and order – why tougher deportation law might win votes but fail the unreasonableness test
Judging Little
05 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
Received a pamphlet from Andrew Little in the letterbox. He makes five key pledges in it, so I thought it would be useful to record them here, and analyse how one could judge if he has kept his word, if he is elected Mayor. They are: 1 Keep Rates down A rates increase no larger…
Judging Little
Book review: Lives of the Laureates
05 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought
During my travels in Europe, I managed to get through reading Lives of the Laureates, which includes autobiographical accounts written by Nobel Prize winners in economics. The source material is an ongoing lecture series hosted by Trinity University in Texas, who invite recent Nobel laureates from US institutions to reflect on their ‘evolution as an…
Book review: Lives of the Laureates
How well did Katrina reconstruction go?
05 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking
…the federal government did something extraordinary: It committed more than $140 billion toward the region’s recovery. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than was spent on the post-World War II Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe or for the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks. It remains the largest post-disaster domestic recovery effort in […]
How well did Katrina reconstruction go?
No, the President Cannot Strip Rosie O’Donnell of Her Citizenship
04 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: constitutional law
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may strip comedian Rosie O’Donnell of her U.S. citizenship. He has made the threat previously, despite having no authority to do so. In the United States, political critics cannot be stripped of their citizenship, and pursuing such a course would be a fundamental denial of constitutional protections not only […]
No, the President Cannot Strip Rosie O’Donnell of Her Citizenship
Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands
04 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: biofuels
By Paul Homewood Another one bites the dust: From AFP: British oil giant Shell announced Wednesday it has abandoned construction of one of Europe’s largest biofuel plants in the Netherlands, as it focuses on its fossil fuels business. Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the […]
Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands
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