
Chad Jones’ awkward remarks on top tax rates and innovation spillovers
09 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%

Why @jamespeshaw is afraid to commission an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a percentage of NZ GDP @mfe_news
07 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism

From David Romer’s graduate macroeconomics textbook
@jamespeshaw should welcome the new year by commissioning an estimate of the cost of #globalwarming as a % of NZ GDP? What is he afraid of learning?
01 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

Bjorn Lomborg: Saving Lives with Fossil Fuels
30 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: indoor air pollution
Are the richer getting richer, poor getting poorer? @Ocasio2018 @SenSanders
30 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

The Greatest Story Ever Told: The Amazing Story of Economic Growth (Steven Landsburg) (1 of 2)
23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, macroeconomics Tags: The Great Enrichment
Walter Williams Suffers No Fools
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination, Walter Williams
Tullock Lecture: Richard Epstein
20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment regulation, Uber
David Friedman on bad arguments about global warming @jamespeshaw @mfe_news
15 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists






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