Economically Speaking: Government Regulation with George Stigler
28 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, George Stigler
#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom wants a great big increase in an old tax
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon pricing, carbon tax

#VirtueSignalling @nzprocom on bit players leading the way in global public good supply
27 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: free riding, international public goods

When will @AnnPettifor found a hedge fund to profit from putting other’s money where her mouth is rather than just her own retirement savings portfolio, which I am sure she did
23 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, Marxist economics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, monetary cranks

Information and Incentives
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics
Don’t do much for the value of diversity in management
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: co-worker discrimination, sex discrimination
Most economists now know their limits? @EricCrampton @TaxpayersUnion
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Deirdre McCloskey Liberalism is the way forward
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment
Many economists failed ethics pop quiz on feathering own nest, credentialism and rent seeking
19 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, Public Choice, rentseeking
Why We Should Repeal The Fair Work Act
19 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, unemployment Tags: employment law, employment protection regulation
Consumerism, Sex, Advertising, and Human Nature: A Talk With Evolutionary Psychologist Gad Saad
17 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: preference formation
George Stigler replies to @rodrikdani on the first theorem of welfare economics
17 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, George Stigler

From Stigler, George J. (1993). “Monopoly.” In The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics, David R. Henderson, ed. New York: Warner Books


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