James Heckman on the lab rats fighting back against the randomisters

18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Public Choice Tags:

Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.

18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice

From https://medium.com/@ismailalimanik/lant-pritchett-the-debate-about-rcts-in-development-is-over-ec7a28a82c17

Douglass North and Timur Kuran: Institutions and Economic Performance

17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags:

Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: , , ,

35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs

16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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: , ,

@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

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags:

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

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Dr. Ross McKitrick

13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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:

Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be

13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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William Nordhaus on DICE, PAGE and FUND not modelling tipping points

10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics

From https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/676035.pdf

With friends like this, #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion won’t live to face its enemies @mfe_news @jamespeshaw

07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

From https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025817

Piketty provoked excellent research into top tax rates and innovation

04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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More on @ProfSteveKeen saying Nordhaus ignored tipping points

30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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@IPCC_CH assessment of the cost of #globalwarming and missing 1.5C to survive @mfe_news @jamespeshaw

28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags:

Click to access SR15_Chapter3_Low_Res.pdf

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Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn

26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags:

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