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Handy guide
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Creative destruction
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in the New York Post in response to the attack this week by Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe. I am honestly saddened by the ad hominem attacks that have become common place with many academics like Tribe. There was a time when legal disagreements could be passionate but not personal. The use…
Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe
Dan Klein Dissects Left and Right
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
My colleague Dan Klein is famous for his research on academics’ ideology. Recent Bet On It discussions of left versus right inspired him to shoot this video. You can also view detailed notes for the lecture here. Enjoy!Update: Dropbox link fixed.Dan Klein
Dan Klein Dissects Left and Right
Blackballing academics for the Monetary Policy Committee?
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
A few months ago, RBNZ and Treasury made some pretty extraordinary claims about the appointment process for external members of the Monetary Policy Committee. Treasury had, in notes released under OIA, said that academic economists with an ongoing research interest in the area were considered conflicted for the MPC.Michael Reddell’s written a lot more on it…
Blackballing academics for the Monetary Policy Committee?
Britain’s Wind Industry In Freefall: Rising Costs See More Major Projects Scrapped
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The value of subsidies to wind power is falling, while the cost of erecting and operating these things has skyrocketed. The result is a complete collapse in wind power capacity investment in Britain, and elsewhere. The usual suspects are running a mile from projects that were (on paper) worth billions. While the wind industry pretends […]
Britain’s Wind Industry In Freefall: Rising Costs See More Major Projects Scrapped
Law-Abiding Immigrants
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of immigration, law and order
The subtitle is The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1850–2020, and the authors are Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres. Here is the to-the-point abstract: Combining full-count Census data with Census/ACS samples, the researchers provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants […]
Law-Abiding Immigrants
The Mother Church of the Common Law
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
The Temple Church is a small church in London built in 1185 by the Knights Templar. It’s now hidden behind Fleet Street amid the Middle and Inner Temple, two of the four “Inns of Court”, the educational institutions and professional associations for common law barristers and judges. The Temple Church is known as the Mother Church of the […]
The Mother Church of the Common Law
CITIZEN SCIENCE: Social justice warriors
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
One of the strangest aspects of entering Transworld, as a parent, is the absolute prohibition on not only discussion or analysis, but even thought, on whether it is a good idea to agree with small children and tumultuous teenagers that their gender doesn’t match their body, and that therefore their body and social environment must…
CITIZEN SCIENCE: Social justice warriors
Fire In The Sky – Zeppelin Shot Down Over Britain I THE GREAT WAR Week 111
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Just making stuff up: the chair of the RB Board and the blackball on expertise
07 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
The government-appointed (and reappointed) chair of the Reserve Bank Board has been in the news today, after the reports earlier this week that in his role as Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University he’d been negotiating policy around a future new medical school at Waikato with National’s health spokesman Shane Reti. I don’t have any particular problem […]
Just making stuff up: the chair of the RB Board and the blackball on expertise
September 7, 1533: Birth of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland
07 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor and is sometimes referred to as the “Virgin Queen”. Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace on September 7 ,1533 and was […]
September 7, 1533: Birth of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland
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