Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
17 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Neumark – Using Minimum Wages to Fight Inequality and Poverty
08 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Richard Sander on affirmative action and education mismatch
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
WHERE BROWN V. BOARD FELL SHORT – George Will 1994
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, constitutional law, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
#globalwarming #climateemergency @greenpeaceusa @AOC @BernieSanders
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, climate alarmists, offsetting behaviour, solar power, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, wind power
Spot the government owned business @AOC @BernieSanders
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
1331 already have cancer but don’t know because of #COVID19 lockdown @JacindaArdern
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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
How many lockdowns are one too many? #COVID19 op-ed in @DomPost
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Stoners don’t like to pay tax nor like greentape @nzdrug
07 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: black markets, marijuana decrimilization, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From DomPost 7 August 20
But @NZHumanRights refutes @KaraninaSumeo; pay transparency doesn’t matter to gender wage gap if few bargain outside of big end of town
08 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/new-research-reveals-large-number-kiwis-are-experiencing-unequal-pay/
Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
07 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, unintended consequences
The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK
26 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, unintended consequences
Hayek and Pandemic Response with Professor Mark Pennington
23 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
HT Cafe Hayek
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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