Repeal Day #OTD
05 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: evonomics of prohibition, meddlesome preferences
Prohibition and The Fall of the Russian Empire
05 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of regulation, war and peace Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state, prohibition, Russia
Cigarette Commercials Australia 1960s 1970s
20 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia Tags: economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
HT: Tim Andrews
08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, meddlesome preferences, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Woke to a tee
07 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, meddlesome preferences, political correctness, regressive left

To a tee @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: meddlesome preferences, political correctness, regressive left
Why locate far from schools @nzdrug? Can’t sell to teens. Low income neighborhoods will keep buying from gangs
12 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Yet another reason why legal cannabis shops will not out-compete the gangs @NZDrug! Out of the way locations
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: anti-market bias, marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
What @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens want
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, political correctness, regressive left
A wise man doesn’t fall into a hole a clever man can climb out of: @JulieAnneGenter just kept digging
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, sports economics Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Nanny-in-Chief
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Michael Bloomberg and the Imperious Presidency
14 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 2020 presidential election, meddlesome preferences
Jamie Whyte comments on lifestyle regulations at The Health of the State debate
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of smoking, meddlesome preferences, nanny state
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