
Million dollar taxi licenses under pressure from Uber at last
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation Tags: rent seeking, taxi regulation, Uber
Armen Alchian on the difference between market equilibrium and market clearing
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

More Efficient Tax Systems Lead to Bigger Government
26 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Casey Mulligan, Gary Becker, growth in government, public choice

Institutions and Economic Performance | Timur Kuran speaks with Douglass North
22 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Douglass North, Timur Kuran
It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, election campaigns, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics, technological progress Tags: free trade, globalisation, market augmenting governments

Politicians can’t be heroes any more. Instead, they have to operate within the tightly drawn tramlines of the global economy.
This is true for those on the left and the right, but the pressure that this places on countries to adopt a low-tax, light-regulation regime is something with which the right is far more comfortable.
via It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator.
Richard Posner on behavioural economics and its real-world applications
19 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, labour economics, occupational choice, Richard Posner Tags: behavioural economics, experimental economics, Richard Posner








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