One of my favourite examples of how people react to economic incentives: Architectural tax avoidance👇 🇬🇧 UK : tax on windows 🇻🇳 Vietnam: tax on frontage 🇫🇷 France: tax on floors (roof exempted) 🇧🇷 Brazil: tax on church construction (when finished)

Sad and messed up how people who didn't care about violence harming Syrian civilians—or even excused/defended it—lie that evidence of Syrians suffering happened in Gaza, because now they can use the Syrians as props. Innocent civilians have suffered from violence in both. A lot.

Philosopher David Gauthier has died. dailynous.com/2023/11/13/dav…

Not only is NYC on track to erase the 2020-21 spike in gun violence, there are fewer shooting victims today than 10 years ago. data and more here: jasher.substack.com/p/where-gun-vi…

In a new paper, stighebbelstrup, Alexander Bor & I couple administrative records of a random sample of Danes (N = 4,931) to their Twitter profiles: osf.io/2dc8n More hateful users have many more criminal verdicts Offline hostility is a key root of online hostility

A restaurant in Prague where food and drink orders are delivered to your table by train

The Consequences of High Taxes for Vaping Products News Director David Clement 🌐 is joined by Michael Landl, Director at the World Vapers Alliance. Michael Landl World Vapers' Alliance #forumdailyca To watch the full program, visit our website tonight at 6:30pm EDT:

Episode 1 of FUN POLICE dropped today ! Featuring Chris Freiman Christopher Snowdon Emil Panzaru David Clement 🌐 pod.link/1714265675

My op-ed on Euractiv on the EU’s #DigitalDecade: ▪️165bn commited, >250bn+ needed ▪️Ambitious EU’s tech regulation agenda is hard to keep up with for smaller bureaucracies ▪️ICT markets are overheated - efficient cross-border procurement is still theoretical Consumer Choice Center

The amazing Vernon Smith. At 96 still going strong. So much so that now people are experimenting on him! marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Interview with Bill Wirtz 🧬🌱 of Consumer Choice Center about his new podcast series Fun Police. Fun Police is an original podcast series produced by the Consumer Choice Center. They take a look at the perpetrators of neo-prohibitionism, the movement that attempts to ban "vices" such as

Most European states that existed in 1000 AD were wiped out. In order to survive, states had to evolve and improve – introduce parliaments, property rights, and adopt military technology. Competition bred improvement. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-entr…

As someone who was born and raised in an ex-Communist country, I am always surprised how little regard young Westerners have for their magnificent civilisation. There were a lot of mistakes, indeed, but I FIRMLY believe all alternatives are worse. Romania is a small country...

“The Federal Court just overturned Ottawa’s single-use plastic ban” The plastic ban was a huge net negative for the environment. And now the courts have ruled Ottawa went too far. 🍾 globalnews.ca/news/10096664/…

Canada Federal Court ruling quashing single-use plastic ban "is a huge win for consumers and the environment," says Consumer Choice Center. Liberal Govt methods to ban some single-use plastics "was the laziest route they could take" consumerchoicecenter.org/court-ruling-o…

Germany lost its mind after the Fukushima accident and decided to close all nuclear plants. It now runs on coal. Japan actually hosted the Fukushima accident, all the negative consequences, and has decided the benefit of nuclear power far outweigh the risks.

I’m learning a lot from episode 1 of this new podcast series. from Consumer Choice Center CatoHealth open.spotify.com/episode/4qEPJR…

Decels of yesteryear: the Red Flag Act of 1865 limited automobiles to a max. 2 mph speed in towns, and required a man carrying a red flag to walk in front of the vehicle. The law "effectively stopped innovation in powered road transport in Britain for over a quarter of a

My colleague Bill Wirtz 🧬🌱 at CCC has recently launched a new podcast - "Fun Police". The first episode explores the history, ethics and the mixed reasoning of prohibition policies across the world. Thought provoking, recommend.