.@ClimateCommNZ has banned new restaurants
09 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmists, unintended consequences
HT: Tim Andrews
08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, meddlesome preferences, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Milton Friedman on Regulations and Consumers
03 Nov 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, offsetting behaviour, philosophy of science, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, useful idiots
Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Future directions of research in the Coasean tradition: Sam Peltzman
16 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, George Stigler, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Sam Peltzman, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Steven Landsburg – Why is there something instead of nothing? – September 19,2020
11 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Unclear if Draconian Measures Saved Lives — John P.A. Ioannidis
06 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots
Stoners don’t like to pay tax
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: California, marijuana decrimilisation, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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