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As you may or may not know, I am a vegetarian. As a result, occasionally I talk myself into needing more protein. To do this I eat cashews, which I think are actually just mainly fat, but are very yummy. Anyways, I went along to the supermarket and purchased a small number of cashews. The […]
With alcohol regulation we decided to remember that it is the external cost that matters. Now one reason private costs might matter in terms of regulation is internalities. There is a discussion of this with regards to boozing here. This brings me to the idea of “addiction” I discovered from this article. What is addiction, […]
Following today’s discussion on an addiction study I have realised that I must have an addition. For the last 2 months I have been painfully addicted to a horrendous substance – not drinking (except for this one intervention that was staged about 3 weeks ago). It has had all the negative impacts associated with addiction: […]
We posted recently criticising the method in which the Law Commission has decided to approach its revamp of alcohol regulation. In the comments there was some vociferous criticism of the BERL report on which the Law Commissions relied for its estimates of the harm of alcohol usage. We were also lucky enough to have a […]
I have seen a lot of talk about the “vote buses” running around, and I’ve been wondering – do they really make much difference? Is it a prisoner’s dilemma (more a zero sum game) where parties have to spend money on the bus tour if the other party is to keep their vote the same, […]
After reading both the Stuff article and the initial article on Gareth Morgan’s blog and the follow up, I am convinced both Gareth and Geoff Simmons (GG) have inadvertently become extreme social constructivists – but may not realise it yet. Now I hate it when people just whip out rhetoric like “social constructivist” and don’t explain […]