The RCT Agenda
Randomized Controlled Trials: Could you be any more scientific? The book I’m now writing, Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets, insists that the randomistas of the economics profession...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Nobel-laureate Economist Angus Deaton
TweetProf. Angus Deaton Princeton University Prof. Deaton: Over the years I’ve learned much from your writings, and I regard your 2013 The Great Escape as one of the most important books published in...
View ArticleBonus Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 434 of the final (2016) volume – Bourgeois Equality – of Deirdre McCloskey’s soaring trilogy on the essence of bourgeois values, on their transmission, and on their essential role...
View ArticleGARY JUDD KC: On judicial imperialism
Why judges must ‘stay in their lane’ This article with minor differences was published by The Law Association’s Law News on 15 March 2024 Provoked by the Supreme Court’s decision in Smith v Fonterra...
View ArticleClaude 3 Opus does Austrian economics
TC: Let’s say you were Peter Boettke, and looking to pen a critique of Kirzner’s theory of entrepreneurship. You come from a slightly different branch of the Austrian school. How would you use that...
View ArticleDo Me a Personal Favor: Please Pre-Order *Build, Baby, Build* Now
I started writing Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, in the early weeks of Covid. Now, with the kind cooperation of the Cato Institute, my second non-fiction graphic...
View ArticleROGER PARTRIDGE: HOW TO REIN IN AN ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT
My earlier column this month, New Zealand’s highest court could be facing a turning point, prompted a flood of feedback from business readers and lawyers alike. A common query was what Parliament can...
View ArticleHaiti vs. the Dominican Republic
I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in my latest Bloomberg column. Excerpt: Consider agriculture. If you fly over Hispaniola, you can see a notable...
View ArticleHow the Carbon Cult Subverts Political Discourse
Trudeau Turns the Carbon Tax Screws on Canadians April 1 Ross Mckitrick explains the smoke and mirrors in Trudeau’s justifications for his racheting carbon tax in a National Post article Wanted: A...
View ArticleAnthony Willy on the SOE case and partnership fiction
Former Judge and barrister Anthony Willy has an excellent post on the famous SOE case which is held up to have decided that the Treaty of Waitangi was a partnership. He demolishes this argument by...
View ArticleUnfettered: Fishback 25 Years Later
A quarter century ago, economist Price Fishback published “Operations of ‘Unfettered’ Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century” 1,762 more words Unfettered:...
View ArticleCuba Libre
Martin Gurri has a very good, deep-dive on the current situation in Cuba. The wreckage of the Cuban economy really can’t be exaggerated. The perpetual blackouts are an apt symbol of a country that is...
View ArticleGlobalization is Win-Win
TweetIn this wonderful new video, John Stossel and Scott Lincicome bust six myths – peddled by the likes of Trump and Biden – about globalization. The post Globalization is Win-Win appeared first on...
View ArticleA Socialist Explains Why Socialism Can’t Work
Not that the socialist in question, Professor Richard D. Wolff, realises that’s what he’s doing in the Q&A video below – and he’s not talking about traditional Communist Command and Controlled...
View ArticleMICHAEL BASSETT: MAORI PUSH FOR PARALLEL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES
If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong....
View ArticleCall for Support: Has the Time Come for a Wellington Ratepayer Activist Group?
Over the years I’ve had various Wellingtonians approach me about setting up, or getting Jordan and the Taxpayers’ Union to set up, a dedicated Wellington ratepayer pressure group to fight for more...
View ArticleThe War On Cars
In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and it will astonish you. The War On Cars
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