Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Crampton on NZ

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Eric Crampton gives us his NZ Roundup over at Offsetting Behaviour . I have to say he has a much rosier view of things than I do. This gove...
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Inappropriate stimulation

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Mario Rizzo writes at the ThinkMarkets on Inappropriate Stimulation . He writes As we now know, job losses have been far greater than avera...
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Favouring a flat tax

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Richard A. Epstein writes on Favo[u]ring A Flat Tax at Forbes.com . Epstein writes But by the same token, sensible libertarians are not ana...
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009

What is the difference between Keynesians, Monetarists and Austrians?

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From the Adam Smith Institute blog For Keynesians, government is the spender of last resort; For Monetarists, government is the lender of la...

EconTalk this week

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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, talks with Russ Roberts, the EconTalk host, about the birth and growth of Wikipedia. He talks about th...

Interesting blog bits

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Offsetting Behaviour on Experiments with the minimum wage . Save the Humans on Have we forgotten half of capitalism . The Inquiring Mind on ...

Lessons from the great depression for economic recovery in 2009

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A talk by Christina D. Romer, head of the US Council of Economic Advisers on Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 200...
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Private prisons

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There has recently been much heat generated over the issue of private prisons, but I would argue very little light has been shed on the topi...
Monday, 9 March 2009

Russ Roberts and Arnold Kling at Bloggingheads

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Russ Roberts and Arnold Kling talk about economics and the current financial crisis at Bloggingheads.tv . (HT: Brad Taylor )

Did post-communist privatisation kill?

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An interesting question and one for which the medical journal Lancet argues the answer is "yes". An article, by David Stuckler, L...

Glaeser on trade

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Edward L. Glaeser writes in the Boston Globe on Building walls with US trading partners . He says FREE TRADE is a child of economic confide...
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Sunday, 8 March 2009

Article on John Key in the WSJ (updated x2)

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An article on John key has appeared in the Wall Street Journal , see You Can't Spend Your Way Out of the Crisis: New Zealand's prime...
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Saturday, 7 March 2009

The Economist and drugs: 20 years apart (updated x2)

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The Economist magazine on drugs: legalise them. The Economist (1989): Drug prohibition cruelly compounds the problems it was meant to solv...
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Let them fail

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Earlier I argue that troubled auto makers should be allowed to go bankrupt. Now I see that Russell Roberts at Cafe Hayek is also arguing t...

Cullen and SOEs (updated)

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From this report on stuff.co.nz we find out that Michael Cullen is being tipped as the next chairman of a top SOE. Michael Cullen is being...
Friday, 6 March 2009

Interesting blog bits

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Not PC on John Banks sticks his hand in your pocket . Save the Humans on Recycling: 5 Year Plan Fails. We Must Redouble Efforts . Richard Ba...

Demand curves slope downwards

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MacDoctor writes It comes as no surprise to me that one of the biggest blow-outs in the ACC bill (proportionally,that is) is the physiothera...
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More on political ignorance

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Earlier I posted on work on political ignorance by Eric Crampton. Well now Eric has started his own blog, called Offsetting Behaviour , and...
Thursday, 5 March 2009

Political ignorance and policy preferences

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A new paper from Eric Crampton, using an interesting New Zealand data set, on Political ignorance and policy preferences . The abstract read...
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Does respecting the individual promote prosperity? (updated)

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Over at Aid Watch William Easterly asks Does Respecting the Individual Promote Prosperity? Easterly writes To drastically oversimplify, va...