Gordon Tullock on the purpose of government

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Lee Ohanian on crisis management

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags:

Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012

25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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:

Tullock on juries

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags:

Walter Williams on racial discrimination and social progress

25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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The Chinese and Russian transitions explained

24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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: , , ,

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

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: , ,

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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: , ,

My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags:

From http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/115164875/greens-proposed-parliamentary-budget-office-is-more-machiavellian-than-meets-the-eye?cid=app-android

Acemoglu and Robinson on inclusive institutions and American exceptionalism

18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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#OTD 1946 “Animal Farm” is published

18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice

Acemoglu and Robinson on comparative economic development

17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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: , , ,

Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?

16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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

From https://nyti.ms/2m9eYYh

David Friedman | Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?

14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, property rights

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