Can Markets Corrupt Social Values? Sandel discovers that Judge Posner is a lawyer. (Death bonds are a great innovation too)
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, property rights, Richard Posner Tags: anti-market bias
The cost of #globalwarming by 2100 is small @jamespeshaw
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists

Robert Lucas on income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact

George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias

Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: patents and copyright
Robert Lucas on the welfare cost of inflation and of macroeconomic phenomenon
19 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment
Jack Hirshleifer: economics in one page
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, marijuana decrimilization, rent control

Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit







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