Debate: Abolish Banking Insurance?
18 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, privatisation, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Hayek’s finest paper
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, property rights Tags: The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, The pretence to knowledge

Mark Ramseyer on the simplicity of Japanese accident law
12 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, law and economics

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=N1_YCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
Debate on Progress Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton
11 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
Mark Ramseyer on how Japanese have simple laws and boring courts
05 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, law and economics

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=N1_YCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Free to Grow | John H. Cochrane
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking






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