Walter Williams Suffers No Fools
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination, Walter Williams
Thomas Sowell – Preferential Policies (Fascinating 1990 Interview)
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Coup-Proofing, Military Defection, and the Arab Spring: (Tullock Vindicated!)
17 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: Arab Spring, economics of revolutions, Gordon Tullock, military coups
Pirates & the Theory of the Firm – Intro to Political Economy, Lecture17 Mike Munger
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: asymmetric information, moral hazard, transaction costs
How we decide? – Steven Landsburg 2008
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
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Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, Roman empire, Thomas Sowell
What makes countries rich or poor?
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape
The Economics of Pirates, Gypsies and Ordeals: Interview with Peter T. Leeson
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, laws of war, market efficiency Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, market failure, pirates
David Friedman. Rights Enforcement Without Government
01 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics Tags: anarchocapitalism
David D. Friedman — A Positive Account of Rights (Budapest, 2018)
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
Doug Allen “The Duel of Honor – screening for unobserved social capital”
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, human capital, law and economics, property rights Tags: asymmetric information, screening, signalling
Sweden Not a Socialist Success
29 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: Sweden
Line of Inquiry: John H. Cochrane on how to prevent financial crises
28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
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