Tagged: Nick Wilson

Seeing what you want to see: Minimum pricing edition - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Jun 05, 2014 •

• alcohol,
• Jennie Connor,
• minimum pricing,
• Nick Wilson

Before we start working through Otago's latest missive on minimum alcohol pricing, let's re-state a few baseline facts.Heavy drinkers are less price responsive than are moderate drinkers. This is well established in Wagenaar's metastudy, and is recognized (but then later ignored) in the Ministry of Justice's report on alcohol minimum pricing. Here's a table from that MoJ report. Heavy … Read More

Pandemics and public health - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Dec 11, 2013 •

• cost-benefit analysis,
• Nick Wilson,
• public health

Gordon Tullock had two standard lines for the (many) anarchists in our grad programme. One was that government was needed to mandate interconnection between private roads. The other was that we need government to enforce quarantines during pandemics.An... Read More

It gets worse - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Oct 31, 2013 •

• Health,
• Nick Wilson,
• public health,
• weeping

Last weekend, I noted Nick Wilson's suggestion that we ban the import of cars that can't block cellphone use inside the car.His letter to the NZ Med Journal, on which his blog post was based, has a few other interesting bits. He has a few other policy suggestions for reducing cell phone use by drivers. Here they … Read More

Cars, phones, and dirigiste policy - The Dismal Science

Eric Crampton • Oct 28, 2013 •

• New Zealand,
• Nick Wilson,
• public health,
• Regulation

Here's public health specialist Nick Wilson on a potential measure to stop drivers from using their phones. But it is possible that there are other options to be explored, including ones that we canvas in the NZ Medical Journal piece. One of these options could be a requirement that all new cars imported into NZ (eg, from the year 2018) could … Read More