
@greenpeaceAP @oxfamnz
22 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Anti-Science left, golden rice, pessimism bias

Pessimism in a World of Increasing Abundance (Steven Pinker)
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, International law, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
#OTD 1967
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics Tags: pessimism bias, prophets of doom

Museum of Neoliberalism
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, Karl Popper, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
No one has ever accused the consumer price index of over-estimating inflation
24 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

The Age of Outrage: What It’s Doing to Our Universities, and Our Country | Manhattan Institute
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, moral psychology, pessimism bias, political correctness, political psychology, regressive left
Debunking the myths of “buying local” food policies”
15 Oct 2019 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, health economics, international economics Tags: food snobs, pessimism bias
#OTD 1990
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: pessimism bias
The Numbers Game: Let’s Party Like It’s 1973!
19 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
The Great Escape @AOC @SenSanders
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Escape

A note for anti-science left especially given its embrace of climate science denial. Previously hollowed consensus isn’t pessimistic enough to justify the Green New Deal
13 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmism, pessimism bias






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