The Green Party has a Member’s Bill up arguing for a consumer right of repair; Auckland University’s Alex Sims has written a few columns in support of such a thing. I’d had an email asking about that legislation; figured I’d share my response here – tidied up a bit.If it’s more expensive to produce a product…
Right to Repair
Right to Repair
21 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: consumer protection
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 7 – Who Protects the Consumer?
27 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, survivor principle, television Tags: consumer fraud, consumer protection
Creative destruction in homeopathic products
06 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: charlatans, consumer fraud, consumer protection, creative destruction, homeopathy, quackery, Quacks
Milton Friedman on the ultimate consumer protection
03 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Milton Friedman, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, consumer protection, consumer sovereignty, The meaning of competition
My brother was left bedridden after stroke in Slovenia because his insurer REFUSED to fly him home | Daily Mail Online
04 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in administration Tags: consumer protection
- John and Christine Rose were on holiday in Slovenia in 2014
- My brother suffered a severe stroke and was rushed to Ljubljana Hospital
- The couple had taken out top-tier insurance with Allianz Global Assistance
- John waited five weeks to received funding to fly him back to Australia
- Company allegedly blamed ‘world events’ and ‘time zones’ saying process is ‘complex’


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