The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
Acemoglu and Robinson on the geography hypothesis
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: endogenous growth theory

Richard Epstein wants the courts to be boring and predictable
08 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: The fatal conceit

Richard Epstein on Maori sovereignty
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Maori economic development

Can behavioural economists explain why incentives work in an asylum for the criminally insane
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, experimental economics, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of mental illness, token economies

George Stigler on workers of the world uniting and voting with their feet
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 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, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Thomas Sowell on losing his religion
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

Justice Scalia on securing religious accommodations through normal democratic means
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: Freedom of religion

Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

George Stigler on the long list of critics of capitalism
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, George Stigler Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias





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