The House voted on the first reading of the bill by Kieran McAnulty’s bill to allow businesses that are allowed to open on public holidays to have normal alcohol sale conditions apply. It is a very common sense bill and passed 67 to 54. It is a personal vote, but it was interesting where the […]
Strange alliances on alcohol vote
Strange alliances on alcohol vote
13 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of prohibition
How are Mexico and Turkey right now like the USA in the 1920s? (Prohibition is causing deaths from drug & alcohol poisoning)
03 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of prohibition
The picture below is of a few paragraphs from the book The Economics of Public Issues, which I often used as a supplemental textbook when I was teaching. Now for modern day Mexico. See How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals: A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods…
How are Mexico and Turkey right now like the USA in the 1920s? (Prohibition is causing deaths from drug & alcohol poisoning)
Will Hunter Take the Stand? He May Want to Think Twice Before Checking That Box
09 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, economics of prohibition, gun control

This weekend, the Hunter Biden team is reportedly debating whether to have him take the stand on Monday, a move rife with risk. Most criminal defendants avoid such appearances given the potential damage of a withering cross examination. Those risks were evident in the recent testimony of Hunter’s daughter, Naomi, which backfired badly on key […]
Will Hunter Take the Stand? He May Want to Think Twice Before Checking That Box
Coffee’s Supply & Demand Dance during Prohibition
08 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of prohibition

I’ve written about coffee consumption during US alcohol prohibition in the past. I’ve also written about visualizing supply and demand. Many. Times. Today, I want to illustrate how to use supply and demand to reveal clues about the cause of a market’s volume and price changes. I’ll illustrate with an example of coffee consumption during […]
Coffee’s Supply & Demand Dance during Prohibition
Medicinal purposes only
06 May 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of prohibition

Offsetting behavior
21 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: economics of prohibition, offsetting behavior, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
A fact-checked debate about legal weed
08 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of prohibition, marijuana decriminalization
Victorian Era Opium Dens
01 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of prohibition
Medicinal only
29 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics Tags: economics of prohibition

Cheap wine that made casket wine look like chateau de chateau
11 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of prohibition, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences

The “King of the Bootleggers” and a loophole in the Volstead Act
20 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: economics of prohibition
The United States Goes Dry – Alcohol Prohibition I THE GREAT WAR
23 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: economics of prohibition, World War I
The United States Goes Dry – Alcohol Prohibition I THE GREAT WAR
23 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: economics of prohibition, World War I
#OTD 1933
07 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, politics - USA Tags: black markets, economics of prohibition



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