Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers & Baptists
06 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists
@Greenpeace why are German and Danish power prices so high?
24 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, Denmark, Germany, green rent seeking, power prices, solar power, wind power
Bruce Yandle discusses the concept of Bootleggers and Baptists
15 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, Bruce Shanley, pressure groups
@GreenpeaceNZ @RusselNorman Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy? @NZGreens
02 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, expressive voting, green rent seeking, rational irrationality, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
@GreenpeaceNZ @jamespeshaw The Futility and Farce of Global Climate Negotiations @RichardTol
18 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, expressive voting, free-riders, global warming, green tariffs, international public goods, Leftover Left, New Zealand Greens, Twitter left
It is time for the environmental movement to face up to the fact that there never will be an international treaty to restrain carbon emissions. The practical way to respond to global warming is healthier is wealthier, richer is safer. Faster economic growth creates more resources for resilience and adaptation to a changing environment.
NEW REPORT: The Futility and Farce of Global Climate Negotiations bit.ly/1LvFFv3 http://t.co/TwbFUwaPlm—
Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) October 17, 2015
India's target compared to its recent history http://t.co/pIvwhoSTpL—
Richard Tol (@RichardTol) October 02, 2015
@DavidLeyonhjelm on the true history of the #NannyState @KevinHague @NZGreens
16 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, liberalism, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
The Bootleggers and Baptists alliance between big tobacco and anti-smoking lobbyists on e-cigarettes
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, pressure groups, special interests
Henry Hazlett on why economics is so difficult
20 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, bootleggers and baptists, green rent seeking, Henry Hazlett, makework bias, methodology of economics, philosophy of economics
The Left opposed airline deregulation
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: airline deregulation, antimarket bias, bootleggers and baptists, expressive voting, Leftover Left, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
CHART: US average airfares 1979 to 2014 measured in number of hours work at the average wage. @chartoftheday http://t.co/q7Phz3VkU0—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 02, 2015
Formal carbon pricing initiatives around the world
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: bootleggers and baptists, carbon pricing, carbon tax, expressive voting, global warming, green rent seeking
#Carbonpricing is expanding w/ initiatives now valued at nearly $50 bil: wrld.bg/NBuz0 http://t.co/qELgE97i1p—
World Bank Pubs (@WBPubs) May 29, 2015
Carbon pricing expanded in the last 18 months. New report shows where & how: wrld.bg/Nrhsq http://t.co/D4uQtjl6EZ—
IFC (@IFC_org) May 27, 2015
A Bootleggers and Baptists alliance against e-cigarettes
03 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bootleggers and baptists, economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, pressure groups
Many unions have exemptions from local minimum wage laws they helped pass
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: bootleggers and baptists, cartels, rent seeking, union power, union wage premium
On appeals to emotion
11 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: activists, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, conjecture and refutation, green rent seeking, peak oil, population bomb, precautionary principle
Still more evidence of mass kidnappings of environmental activists
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: activists, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, do gooders, green hypocrisy, green rent seeking, trade-offs, world heritage areas
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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