A long-delayed closing of the browser tabs:
- A compilation of the Official Information Act requests that Health New Zealand ignored or delayed. I doubt anything gets fixed without penalties for OIA non-compliance.
- CarbonNews ($) reports more investments into Ruminant BioTech, which has a slow-release bolus that massively reduces cattle methane production. 70%. If this thing winds up being able to be delivered at a reasonable price-point, that's agricultural methane emissions solved. Nitrates will still be a problem. But 70% reduction is well beyond any of the targets for long-lived gas reduction.
- Who is Dril?
- Learning from Houston's townhouse reforms.
- If you take away combustion's harms, there's no particularly good reason to worry about people enjoying nicotine. Do you complain about their caffeine? The excellent Clive Bates.
- And on the same topic, note too the speech by UK Minister Neil O'Brien on avoiding NZ-style prohibitionist approaches.
Now of course some would go further - to stop people to start smoking in the first place. The Khan Review last year advocated the New Zealand approach - a full phase out of smoking, with the age of sale increasing over time to cover all adults.
This would be a major departure from the policy pursued over recent decades which has emphasised personal responsibility and help for people to quit. And it is the help for current smokers to quit that we want to focus on. - An older piece by Pete Boettke that I'd missed on the genius of Armen Alchian. Certainly one of the Pantheon of the Econ Gods. Really important points on markets as a filtering tech. It doesn't matter if people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft. You can still model them as rational and the model tracks because that's what survives. Read!
And in honour of the Boettke piece...
Presenting...
— Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 (@hamandcheese) April 9, 2023
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