
@NZComCom raises middle digit to @jamespeshaw’s @JulieAnneGenter’s electric car dreams @TaxpayersUnion
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: electric cars, The fatal conceit

@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

‘One Child Nation’ Exposes the Tragic Consequences of Chinese Population Control
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics Tags: China, economics of fertility, The fatal conceit
The downside of #endoil
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: The fatal conceit

Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit

Acemoglu and Robinson on the futility of foreign aid from Why Nations Fail
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, The fatal conceit

David Bernstein on the hollow hope that antidiscrimination laws lead social progress
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

How @jamespeshaw’s #ZeroCarbonBill will quicken #globalwarming by making efficient exporters less cost competitive @mfe_news
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming Tags: The fatal conceit

Richard Epstein wants the courts to be boring and predictable
08 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: The fatal conceit

Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit

Caldwell on Hayek and the high school libertarians
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

David Levine on why the timing of crashes and crises cannot be predicted
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, The fatal conceit




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