Why is Danish electric power more expensive than anywhere else?
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, Denmark, expressive voting, green rent seeking, power prices, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renewable energy, The pretence to knowledge, wind power
More vital information on the dangers of DHMO
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: antiscience left, DHMO, expressive voting, green scare tactics, precautionary principle, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
@greenpeacenz The inconvenient truth about wind power
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Big Wind, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, rational irrationality, renewable energy, wind power
The time when the mass kidnappings of principled anti-war activists started has been uncovered
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: activists, anti-war movement, expressive voting, green hypocrisy, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, mass kidnappings, peace movement
via What’s Wrong With the U.S. Peace Movement, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.
Do Residential Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver?
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, energy conservation, expressive voting, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, tokenism
The researchers found that the upfront cost of efficiency upgrades of a large randomized controlled trial of 30,000 homes in Michigan came to about $5,000 per house, on average. But their central estimate of the energy savings only amounted to about $2,400 per household, on average, over the lifetime of the upgrades.
After the upgrades, homes used 10 to 20 percent less energy for electricity and heating. But, that was only about 39 percent of the savings that engineering modelers had predicted ahead of time. The program simply wasn’t as effective at saving energy as everyone thought.
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Should Majorities Decide Everything?
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, liberalism, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law, expressive voting, median voter theorem, Mike Munger, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, tyranny of the majority
@oxfamnz @GreenpeaceNZ Further evidence of mass kidnappings of principled environmentalists – indoor pollution version
14 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: air pollution, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, green hypocrisy, indoor pollution, Kuznets curve, rational irrationality, The Great Escape
The deadliest environmental problem today is indoor air pollution — killing 4 million a year. vox.com/2014/9/15/6150… http://t.co/xtwLRfkVF2—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 11, 2015
The cognitive biases of the…
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, antiscience left, cognitive biases, cognitive psychology, expressive voting, political psychology, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Good old left-wing hate speech at its best
12 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: British elections, expressive voting, free speech, hate speech, London newspapers, media bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
I agree with @D_Blanchflower – I wish newspapers didn't spin elections and played it straight, like they used to… http://t.co/5btL7PAFWe—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) May 07, 2015
Who has compulsory voting?
12 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: compulsory voting, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
13% of countries have compulsory voting #democracy
#elections statista.com/chart/3466/the… http://t.co/so9CmCEXiX—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) May 08, 2015
Market segmentation in the London newspaper market
11 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: British elections, British politics, consumer sovereignty, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, expressive voting, London newspapers, market selection, media bias, product differentiation, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The meaning of competition
The truth about the press and power? Readers, not editors, decide elections. @RobertdgSmith specc.ie/1c58mAr http://t.co/Vhit9P9iM7—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) May 06, 2015
Newspaper bias just ain’t what it used to be
10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Public Choice Tags: British elections, creative destruction, expressive voting, London newspapers, media bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, red scares
Here's the Daily Mirror's polling day advice from days when it was more fair and balanced (h/t Guido) http://t.co/GJ5CNGMoRj—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) May 07, 2015
A living wage helps well-off households more!
10 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: activists, British economy, British politics, do gooders, expressive voting, living wage, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Do Living Wage advocates realise it helps richer households more than poorer ones? My take: telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget… … http://t.co/YPTB6v7tSB—
Fraser Nelson (@FraserNelson) July 10, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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