
Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Thomas Sowell Brings the World into Focus through an Economics Lens
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit
Hershleifer contrasts normative versus positive analysis
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit

Usage Share of Internet Browsers 1996 – 2019. I am sure @NZComCom was convinced Netscape had a monopoly
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, The fatal conceit
Eric Posner on the paradoxes of having laws of war
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

#OIA to @NZHumanRights: any research on the extent of pay transparency and pay secrecy
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap, The fatal conceit

Why gains most from stronger hate speech laws? @NZHumanRights
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

How the marketplace for ideas deals with Nazis when do-gooders aren’t making things far worse with censorship
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit







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