Yes, Minister – The Six Diplomatic Options
07 May 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, televison Tags: Yes Minister
Yes Minister – Next Prime Minister
03 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in television Tags: Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister
Milton Friedman debates Peter Jay, not the writer of Yes Minister
27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economics Tags: Yes Minister
The Rhodesia Solution – Yes Minister
13 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: Yes Minister
Why the UK is in the EU – Europass – Yes Minister
15 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, television Tags: Yes Minister
Sir Humphrey on how to discredit a report without reading it
22 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, television Tags: Yes Minister
The 1st @NYTimeskrugman on #TPPANoWay @Oxfamnz #JaneKelsey
30 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics Tags: customs unions, free trade agreements, globalisation, Jane Kelsey, Leftover Left, Oxfam, Paul Krugman, preferential trading agreements, rational irrationality, TPP, Twitter left, Yes Minister
https://twitter.com/TPPMediaMarch/status/692055631579185152
If George Bush had not won the 2000 presidential election, Paul Krugman would have taken over as the best communicator of economics since Milton Friedman. Instead, he became patient number no.1 of George Bush derangement syndrome. Ann Coulter was patient no. 1 of Clintons derangement syndrome.
Source: Enemies of the WTO.
@ChristchurchCC Deputy Mayor is clueless about the criminal justice system
21 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, television, transport economics, urban economics Tags: crime and punishment, evidence-based policy, law and order, local government, rational ignorance, rational rationality, road safety, Yes Minister
In responding to demands for police to crack down on windscreen washers, some of whom intimidate motorists to pay, the deputy mayor of Christchurch showed a cultured ignorance of youth courts. She has never read newspaper reports that show that youth court defendants are never named and their convictions are not held against them as adults. Furthermore, she is unaware of the spent convictions law in New Zealand that expunges most convictions after seven years, especially petty convictions.
Yes Prime Minister on the fiscal savings from smoking
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state, Yes Minister
Yes Minister Special Sketch (Christmas at the ministry) – 1982
25 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in TV shows Tags: Yes Minister
HT: Andrew Sheldon
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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