What Makes Things Cool?

07 Jun 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in behavioural economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: , ,

Oops – Loss aversion, the first law of behavioral economics, enters psychology’s reproducibility crisis

17 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in behavioural economics

I agree with McCloskey

30 Mar 2018 2 Comments

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Speaking of the other people are stupid fallacy – the straw man attacked by behavioural economics

10 Oct 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, behavioural economics

Are markets efficient? Fama debates Thaler

10 Oct 2017 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in behavioural economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags:

Are markets efficient? Eugene Fama (yes!) and Richard Thaler (no!) debate

30 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, behavioural economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: , , ,

Culture of Gowth: Origins of the Modern Economy

08 Aug 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: ,

Paul Samuelson on experimental economics

09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment

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P.T. Bauer on @BernieSanders extending #fightfor15 to entire Third World!

19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, P.T. Bauer, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: , , , , , ,

India tried that in the 1950s as part of its five-year plans. It did not work that well. Bauer said that in development economics there is a “need to restate the obvious.”

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Source: Ending the Race to the Bottom – Bernie Sanders.

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Source: Indian Economic Policy and Development – P. T. Bauer (1959) – Google Books

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What have we learned from economics field experiments?

29 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

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Ten behavioural biases and effects in regulation

12 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis

Source: Stephen Littlechild via Who’s Phooling Whom? – Clive Crook.

The obvious reason for the popularity of behavioural economics

10 Dec 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , ,

Source: Why Economists Are Right: Rational Expectations and the Uncertainty Principle in Economics — Part II | David K. Levine.

Poverty traps in America

02 Oct 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics, welfare reform Tags: , ,

A perspective on the overweening conceit of youth

14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, economics of crime, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics Tags: , , ,

Ed Glaeser on the dangers of soft paternalism

29 Jun 2015 Leave a comment

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