Eamonn Butler on the knowledge problem
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence of knowledge, unintended consequences
Coronavirus: Do socialists understand socialism?
29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
Spare a thought for those locked in their rooms at backpackers hotels and camping grounds #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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From https://covid19.govt.nz/government-actions/covid-19-alert-level/essential-businesses/#additional
Cabinet must be adjudicating 24/7 on which businesses stay open #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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#Hayekianknowledgeproblem: 2006 pandemic law couldn’t even list all of NZ’s courts properly so emergency amendment passed yesterday
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, health economics
Hayek (1950) on why the current stimulus will fail
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy, Keynesian macroeconomics
Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
Does Fractional Reserve Banking Endanger the Economy? A Debate
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: economics of banking, monetary policy
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