Discussion Tuesday
Let’s do some inequality stuff. The wealthier a society is, the less (relative) income inequality it should be willing to accept
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Author Archive for: Matt Nolan
Entries by Matt Nolan
More rhetoric on restricting the choice of the poor
I see that leading Stuff today is an article on New Zealand’s “obesity epidemic”, and how we must changes some things because we are “killing ourselves”. The policy suggestions are: In a report published today, the association calls for drastic cures for the bulge, including taxing or minimum prices for sugary drinks, restricting food advertising […]
On fairy tales
Dawkin’s believes that fairy tells hurt kids. Update: It sounds like I have been unfair, here are the reported comments. It still makes a cool conversation, so I will leave this up for comments about the ideas 🙂 From the article: The British scientist, known for his assaults on religion in books such as The […]
Top 10 on Global Warming
So Interest.co.nz allowed me to pop up another one of these “Top 10” links things – where I blatantly use more than ten links to make some arbitrary point about some arbitrary subject. This time, global warming – go over and give it a look. However, there are a few links that I missed. An […]
Productivity in the UK and NZ
I see that Patrick Nolan has an article in Public Finance talking about UK and New Zealand productivity. Go read it, but come back here to comment as they don’t seem to have a comment system. As we are a NZ audience, I’ll quote this bit: While New Zealand faces different challenges, its experience can throw light […]
A modern version of an old economists joke
You’ve all heard the joke about the Chicago economist who doesn’t pick up the $20 note on the pavement, as someone would have picked it up already. All very good – it is discussed over at “Economist’s do it with models”. The always brilliant SMBC has come up with a different take on this in […]