Zingales: … would you be in favor of breaking up Standard Oil? Cowen: If Standard Oil were giving away the oil for free, no.
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
Cost of #globalwarming
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists

@BernieSanders explains @fightfor15 to @AOC
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

More @MBIEgovtnz warnings of more homelessness under @JacindaArdern’s fairer tenancy laws
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

.@MBIEgovtnz warns of more homelessness from fairer tenancy reforms by @jacindaardern
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

No landlord with rent to tenants with less than stellar credentials from now on.
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Nordhaus on tipping points
11 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

Museum of Neoliberalism
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, Karl Popper, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Nordhaus explains the title of his book
04 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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