
George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias

Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: patents and copyright
Tullock on juries
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: juries

The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

How the marketplace for ideas deals with Nazis when do-gooders aren’t making things far worse with censorship
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
Acemoglu and Robinson on inclusive institutions and American exceptionalism
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

#OTD 1946 “Animal Farm” is published
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice

Acemoglu and Robinson on comparative economic development
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism

Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment
David Friedman | Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, property rights
The risks of doing business in 1990s Russia
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, fall of communism, transitional economies





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