Cato has a good summary of Deregulation in Argentina: The end of Argentina’s extensive rent controls has resulted in a tripling of the supply of rental apartments in Buenos Aires and a 30 percent drop in price. The new open-skies policy and the permission for small airplane owners to provide transportation services within Argentina has […]
Argentina’s DOGE
Argentina’s DOGE
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, regulation Tags: Argentina
The Eyewatering Cost Of Heat Pumps
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, fisheries economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham Heat pumps were supposed to coming down in price, we were told. Instead the opposite has occurred. The Telegraph report: “The cost of fitting a heat pump has risen by a third in six years despite generous government grants – leading critics to accuse installers […]
The Eyewatering Cost Of Heat Pumps
People Barely Care About Equality
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: regressive left
Another simple proof.
People Barely Care About Equality
At the end of World War I, Britain was in heavy financial debt to the U.S. The question of repayments would bedevil both countries for decades
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, financial economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, war and peace Tags: British politics France, World War I
See ‘Mellon vs. Churchill’ Review: The Payback Problem by Benn Steil. He reviewed the book Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War by Jill Eicher. Excerpts:”In a nutshell, the debt story of the 1920s goes like this. Following World War I, 10 countries owed the U.S. more than $10 billion ($190 billion…
At the end of World War I, Britain was in heavy financial debt to the U.S. The question of repayments would bedevil both countries for decades
Bosses Don’t Need a ‘What Did You Do’ Email. They’re Already Tracking You. (and how this might be related to Keynes’ theory of sticky wages)
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, managerial economics, monetary economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, unemployment Tags: efficiency wage, wage rigidity
Elon Musk’s email to federal employees prompted angst, but lots of employers use technology for continuous feedback on worker performanceBy Natasha Khan and Ray A. Smith. Excerpts:”What did you do last week?The question that Elon Musk lobbed to federal workers in an email set off anger and angst from unions and employees. It also prompted…
Bosses Don’t Need a ‘What Did You Do’ Email. They’re Already Tracking You. (and how this might be related to Keynes’ theory of sticky wages)
Facial surgeons wanted in New Zealand, must be intimately familiar with all things Māori
26 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: political correctness. affirmative action, racial discrimination, regressive left
Here’s an archived link to an ad for a consultant oral maxillofacial surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. The curious thing—well, not so curious given that it’s New Zealand,—is the list of required qualifications. Click to read (a New Zealand dollar is worth about 57¢ in U.S. currency): Some of the details: About the role In this […]
Facial surgeons wanted in New Zealand, must be intimately familiar with all things Māori
US Supreme Court Rejects Long Running Youth Climate Lawsuit
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: climate activists, nuisance suits
Bye bye Juliana v. United States.
US Supreme Court Rejects Long Running Youth Climate Lawsuit
Who believes in conspiracy theories?
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, health economics Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology
While the psychological dispositions that underlie conspiracy thinking are well researched, there has been remarkably little research on the political preferences of conspiracy believers that go beyond self-reported ideology or single political issue dimensions. Using data from the European Voter Election Study (EVES), the relationship between conspiracy thinking and attitudes on three deeper-lying and salient […]
Who believes in conspiracy theories?
Exposing the out of control deep state in NZ
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: housing affordability, land supply, nanny state, political correctness, regressive left, zoning
The NZ version of the deep state appears to be the NZ Public Health Service. They regards themselves as having a divine right to opine on every issue of the day from capitalism to building design. They have been allowed to do this for far too long, and it is great to see the Minister […]
Exposing the out of control deep state in NZ
A Brief History of Anti-Semitism
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: antisemitism, The Holocaust
The True Story of the Great Escape
25 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Nazi Germany, World War II
During World War II, one of the most daring and ambitious prisoner-of-war (POW) escapes in history took place in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. Known as “The Great Escape,” this remarkable event was executed by Allied airmen who demonstrated extraordinary resilience, ingenuity, and bravery in their pursuit of freedom. While the escape itself […]
The True Story of the Great Escape
What does India want – and what is New Zealand willing to give?
25 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: India, preferential trade agreements
Chris Trotter writes – What does India want from New Zealand? Not our dairy products, that’s for sure, it’s got plenty of those. Indeed 45 percent of the Indian population are small-scale farmers, most of them running a few head of cattle – not to eat, you understand – but to milk. If it once […]
What does India want – and what is New Zealand willing to give?
The curse of knowledge
25 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economics of education, health and safety, human capital, occupational choice Tags: cognitive psychology, educational psychology
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone, possessing knowledge or expertise on a particular topic, struggles to imagine or communicate with others who lack the same understanding or information. Essentially, once we know something, it’s very hard to imagine what it’s like not to know it. How it manifests: Why it happens: […]
The curse of knowledge
A great new research paper
25 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Jerry Coyne has found a wonderful new research paper. The abstract is: This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities. Specifically, the article places queer and lesbian ecofeminism in conversation with Donna Haraway’s work on the cyborg and companion species to theorize the interconnected queer becomings of people, nature, animals, and […]
A great new research paper
Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced In Antarctica And Poland, 2 New Studies Show
25 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of climate change, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The two new studies from Antarctica and Poland indicate that the natural climate factors still need to be much better understood in order to be able to incorporate them faithfully into climate models. Currently, the simulations do not attribute a major role to natural climate events, which is a serious mistake.
Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced In Antarctica And Poland, 2 New Studies Show
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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