25 Sep 2015
by Jim Rose
in environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice
Tags: China, climate alarmism, climate treaties, global warming, green tariffs, Greenpeace, international environmental law, Paris Summit 2015, Twitter left
Greenpeace is right in saying in their open letter with others that New Zealand should not send a minister to the climate talks in Paris later this year. I agree for different reasons.
In common with many previous climate summits, the Paris talks will be a futile gesture that will have no significant effect on the pace of global warming and holding the summit is a waste of taxpayers money.
Nothing will come of them because the developing countries have no interest in postponing their development because of a minor inconvenience from global warming.
The easy way to tell if there is anything going to happen at a climate summit is the seniority of the delegation.
The Chinese made it clear at the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that they were not interested in an agreement by sending a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs to a key side meeting of the American and French presidents, the British Prime Minister and the German Chancellor. All subsequent policy manoeuvrings by the Chinese on global warming are an attempt to head off green tariffs on their exports.
14 Sep 2015
by Jim Rose
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics
Tags: Africa, child mortality, China, India, infant mortality, life expectancies, South America, The Great Escape
11 Sep 2015
by Jim Rose
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Marxist economics
Tags: child mortality, China, global poverty, infant mortality, stream poverty, The Great Escape
17 Aug 2015
by Jim Rose
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, politics - New Zealand
Tags: Australia, Canada, China, FDI, Japan, Left-wing hypocrisy, left-wing popularism, New Zealand Greens, right-wing popularism
Canada was the largest source of foreign investment during the period, as its pension fund bought 18 properties in a portfolio from AMP and increased its stake in Kaingaroa Forest.
12 Aug 2015
by Jim Rose
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking
Tags: Australia, China, climate alarmism, climate change treaties, free-riders, game theory, global warming, international free riders, international public goods, public goods
01 Aug 2015
by Jim Rose
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle
Tags: anticapitalist mentality, antimarket bias, capitalism and freedom, China, Cuba, expressive voting, Hong Kong, Leftover Left, public intellectuals, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, Twitter left
27 Jul 2015
by Jim Rose
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics
Tags: China, collapse of communism, economics of socialism, India, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, The Permit Raj, transitional economies
17 Jul 2015
by Jim Rose
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice
Tags: capitalism and freedom, China, fall of communism, Leftover Left, transitional economies
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