
@PaulKrugman explains #TPPANoWay
03 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: patents and copyright, preferential trade agreements
David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Can @jamespeshaw remind me how his #ZeroCarbonBill will make a blind bit of difference
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism, expressive voting, virtue signaling

Do-gooders strike again
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: The fatal conceit

George Stigler on the long list of critics of capitalism
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, George Stigler Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias

Sam Peltzman asks how many people @US_FDA @minhealthnz #medsafe killed today?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice
George Stigler on the working class voting with thier feet
26 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration, The Great Enrichment

The cost of global warming @jamespeshaw @Greenpeace
25 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

Monopsony has a monopoly on ambiguity and sexing up search frictions as exploitation too
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: job search, labour market search, monopsony, search and matching

Even small minimum wage increase have ambiguous employment effects under monopsonistic competition
16 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences







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