New Rule: Equality of Outcomes | Real Time with Bill Maher
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Why Hundreds of Uncontacted Tribes Still Exist in South America
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in economics of media and culture
Cigarette Commercials Australia 1960s 1970s
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in health economics, politics - Australia Tags: economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Does @MaramaDavidson seal off most afternoons for her paperwork?
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From https://www.beehive.govt.nz/search?f%5B0%5D=content_type_facet%3Aministerial_diary&f%5B1%5D=ministers%3A6679&f%5B2%5D=government_facet%3A6455 and http://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2021-02/Hon%20Marama%20Davidson%20Proactive%20Diary%20Jan%202021.pdf
Behind on my blasphemy
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in economics of religion, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Freedom of religion

I would like to see a gender analysis of the Saudi happiness data
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in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, liberalism Tags: Age of Enlightenment, sex discrimination, women's liberation
Tony Soprano and Mikey Palmice – they were like brothers in law
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Lost on @Greens @NZGreens
20 Mar 2021 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell

Mount Tambora: The Year Without a Summer
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in economic history, economics of natural disasters
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven Davis: Will working from home stick
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in health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
Free up the land
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I suggested on Twitter yesterday that the Green Party’s new housing policy – as articulated on BusinessDesk here by Julie Anne Genter – was absolutely right about the urgency of the issue (actually reform has been overdue for the best part of 30 years) and the need for boldness, but quite wrong about proposed policy responses, which seemed to tackle symptoms while failing to get to the heart of the matter. BusinessDesk invited me to submit a piece offering my solutions. That column came out this afternoon, and is here (not behind the paywall).
Since people tend not to click on links, and I haven’t given the copyright to BusinessDesk who published it a couple of hours ago, I’ve set out my full text below.
Bear in mind that I had only 800 words. That meant I had no chance to do anything much more than set out the key…
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