
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

#COVID19 #OTD
14 Aug 2020 1 Comment
in health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit

How many lockdowns are one too many?
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of education, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit

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

But marijuana referendum won’t change prohibitions on supply to teenagers nor gangs as their suppliers @nzdrug
09 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit

Where @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders trip-up
09 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit

Cancer referrals fall to record low due to #COVID19
09 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, 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
So keeping the marijuana ban in place for under 20s will magically reduce teenage cannabis use?! @nzdrug
04 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit

Younger people won’t recognize the names of these winner take all, enduring natural monopolies
04 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit

More rubbish Yes Case arguments @nzdrug. Youth can still buy from gangs. No reliable data on youth use. Demand curves slop downwards too.
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization, The fatal conceit


Yet another reason why legal cannabis shops will not out-compete the gangs @NZDrug! Out of the way locations
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: anti-market bias, marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences



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