Modern human populations only moved out of Africa 50,000-55,000 years ago! @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
08 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: Aboriginal land rights, political correctness, racism discrimination, rational ignorance, regressive left
Myth of the Rational Voter
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in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, regressive left
Describes @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace to a tee
17 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
So true
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Dunning-Kruger effect, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, expressive voting, nuclear power, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, solar power, virtue signaling, wind power
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
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