35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
@WorldBank was said to fight world poverty one staff member at a time. Is one field research grant at a time to reconfirm the obvious any better?
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Nobel prize for discovering if you subsidise something, you see more of it!! Many years worth of randomized controlled trials just to make sure in dirt poor countries. Didn’t know child vaccination payoffs so marginal that you had to check.
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Dr. Ross McKitrick
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
William Nordhaus on DICE, PAGE and FUND not modelling tipping points
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics
With friends like this, #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion won’t live to face its enemies @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
@IPCC_CH assessment of the cost of #globalwarming and missing 1.5C to survive @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit
Matthew Kahn on #globalwarming and adaptation in Asian cities
25 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, technological progress
Weitzman versus @ProfSteveKeen on Nordhaus ignoring tipping points
25 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming
George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981)
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, environmental economics, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anarchocapitalism
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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