Soda Ban Explained | Op-Docs | @nytimes @EricCrampton
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: expressive politics, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, sugar tax, virtue signalling
Does it Feel Good or Does it Do Good? Left vs. Right
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economics of education, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - USA Tags: expressive politics, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Would a proposal to quickly double the New Zealand minimum wage ever be entertained?
15 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: expressive politics
Why did @jamespeshaw put Suzi Kerr on his climate committee after letting this cat out of the bag in her JEL 2015 survey?
07 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: carbon tax, expressive politics, game theory, international public goods
How green art thou? #buswaysforelectriccars not #BuswaysForBuses
06 May 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: busways, do gooders, electric cars, expressive politics, global warming, trade-offs, transport lobby
Finally have something nice to say about electric cars. They will put bus lanes to good use.
A trivial percentage of people take the bus to work In New Zealand. The government has a target of doubling electric car fleet every year (from 2000 in 2016 to 64,000 in 2021).
This decision yesterday to allow them to use busways allows us to relish in seeing environmentalists feud over which technologies are green enough to have access to priority lanes on the road such as those allocated to buses.
Which is more important? Saving the planet or saving the buses; most of them are diesel? Busways are empty at the weekends and many other times.
Did Earth Hour save any power? @GreenpeaceNZ
21 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Earth Hour, expressive politics, expressive voting, Greenpeace, Human Achievement Hour, New Zealand Greens, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Regression time! Using Saturdays only, control for temp and time, earth hour had zero effect. @bcshaffer #ableg https://t.co/krTy8DFvrE—
Trevor Tombe (@trevortombe) March 20, 2016
@jacindaardern @ChrisHipkins why abolishing tuition fees entrenches inequality
14 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, human capital, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: distributive justice, expressive politics, free tuition, rational irrationality, social justice, top 1%
The Great Escape and #vegetarianism
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, environmental economics, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: expressive politics, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, vegetarianism
Why do unilateral actions to combat global warming fail in Congress?
21 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, evidence-based policy, expressive politics, expressive voting, global warming, rational irrationality
The role of low wages in poverty
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: expressive politics, Leftover Left, poverty, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Greenpeace protesters no longer have fire in their bellies
26 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism, expressive politics, expressive voting, global warming, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, nonviolent direct action, peaceful protests
Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Micro-aggressions, and other Fruits of Campus Feminism
17 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in liberalism, politics - USA Tags: Christina Hoff Sommers, expressive politics, expressive voting, feminism, identity politics, political correctness
Penn and Teller on recycling – the practice of ‘feeling good for no reason’ | Carpe Diem Blog
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
Gender differences in celebrity charity causes
27 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, gender Tags: Celebrities, charities, expressive politics, expressive voting
Gender differences in celebrity charity causes, visualized f-st.co/V1NMVE6 http://t.co/czkuRlWzKF—
Co.Design (@FastCoDesign) January 20, 2015
Murphy’s Law of Economic Policy
26 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Alan Blinder, evidence-based policy, expressive politics, free trade, protectionism, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, rent seeking
Greg Mankiw on one of the few things economists agree on: free trade. That's the problem. nyti.ms/1GrLisQ http://t.co/WrLuP3oBSW—
The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) April 25, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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