
Robert Bork, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and the radicalism of the original intent of equal protection before the law (via George Will)
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination, Robert Bork

Richard Posner: Constitutional Interpretation
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: constitutional law
Richard Epstein on Originalism and Judicial Restraint
11 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, property rights Tags: constitutional law, Richard Epstein
Scalia in full flight including against the Whig theory of history
10 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Antonin Scalia, constitutional law
Antonin Scalia – Philosophy of an Originalist
10 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Antonin Scalia, constitutional law
My favorite quote on British colonialism
09 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: British empire, economics of colonialism

Antonin Scalia – On American Exceptionalism
09 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics Tags: Antonin Scalia, constitutional law
David Friedman on national security without a state
30 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, law and economics
David Friedman – Law Enforcement Without the State
29 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, law and economics
Law Without the State | David Friedman
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, law and economics
Stigler explains how intellectuals and consultants ply their policy trade honestly
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, George Stigler, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: consultants, job sorting, public intellectuals

Instrumental Variables estimation – colonial origins of economic development
17 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Daron Acemoglu, economics of colonialism



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