Create a Black Market the Easy Way!
20 May 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation Tags: offsetting behaviour, price controls, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Friedman: Law, Economics and Liberty
18 May 2022 Leave a comment
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Scalia and Thomas on a federal abortion ban
13 May 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, gender, law and economics Tags: abortion rights, constitutional law, federalism


Richard Epstein on The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti Discrimination Laws
13 May 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, poverty and inequality, Richard Epstein Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981) – The Turney Collection
11 May 2022 Leave a comment
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David Levine | Address and Q&A on patents and copyright| Oxford Union Web Series
11 May 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: patents and copyright
Disney’s Special Tax District in Florida, Explained | @WSJ
26 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, movies, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, television Tags: zoning
What a strange @DomPost diatribe? Capitalist running dog Big Phama developed and distributed multiple safe #covid19 vaccines at record speed
19 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-market bias, economics of pandemics, The Great Enrichment

Climate Change Is NOT An Emergency
14 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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From a review of The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World Ran Abramitzky
12 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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From https://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/view/1453
“The Mystery of the Kibbutz explores the history of the kibbutz movement and its vision of economic equality, how it thrived despite inherent economic contradictions, and why it eventually declined. He focuses on three challenges in particular: first, the free rider problem, that there is no benefit for working harder when you get the same salary or personal economic benefits; second, adverse selection – that such a social system would tend to attract people who would not be as successful in a capitalist market; or the inverse, a brain drain, that the smartest people or those who could find success outside the kibbutz would tend to leave. Finally, the question of human capital investment: that there would be a tendency to underinvest in human capital, in other words that there would be a lack of incentive for young people to study or work hard because in the end as kibbutz members they can depend on equal income no matter what their contribution is.”
Matthew E. Kahn discusses his new book Going Remote
04 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman Why free markets work
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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Josh Wright | UCLA Law and Economics, Relational Contracts, and Antitrust
04 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm Tags: competition law
Is Market Failure an argument against government? – David Friedman
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights Tags: market failure
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