An Introduction to Externalities
30 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation
Energy efficiency investments are inefficient
29 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences

Why Empathy Is Not the Best Way to Care | Paul Bloom
26 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis Tags: cognitive psychology, moral psychology
Good question
25 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

Robert Lucas on the utopianism of most economic advisors
23 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, Public Choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: The pretence to knowledge

David D. Friedman | Market failure
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, law and economics, property rights Tags: market failure
Against Empathy
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, defence economics, development economics, economics of regulation, environmental economics, global warming, war and peace Tags: moral psychology
Soda Ban Explained | Op-Docs | @nytimes @EricCrampton
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: expressive politics, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, sugar tax, virtue signalling
Democratic Socialism is a Scam
10 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: regressive left
“You’re all a bunch of socialists” Mises on Friedman
08 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, F.A. Hayek, income redistribution, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
The big debate about the future of work, explained by @voxdotcom
07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: automation, creative destruction, pessimism bias
U.S. Prohibition (1920-33)
07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of prohibition
My @NZHerald op-ed: unilateral climate action isn’t the next best thing @jamespeshaw
06 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, game theory



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