As @peston showed in "Quelle Catastrophe!" last night, French economic growth has fallen behind UK in this century. pic.twitter.com/QeV0U1LJmD
— Andrew Sentance (@asentance) March 14, 2015
Deirdre McCloskey on corruption and economic development
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: corruption, Deirdre McCloskey, The Industrial Revolution
Do Paul Samuelson’s criticisms of behavioural economics make him a double secret Austrian economist?
13 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, Paul Samuelson
via Samuelson vs. Friedman, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty and An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part One — The Atlantic.
The weight of science in contentious social issues
07 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: evidence-based policy, expressive voting, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, science and public policy
David Friedman on global warming, population and problems with the externality argument
02 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, population economics, property rights Tags: climate alarmism, competition as a discovery procedure, David Friedman, externalities, global warming, population bomb, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge






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