
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

@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










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