How Don Lavoie Changed the Debate about Socialism and Central Planning
30 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, Marxist economics, Public Choice
Adam Smith: How His Great Idea Made Us Rich – Deirdre McCloskey
26 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, growth miracles, history of economic thought Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
On the art of economics
11 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics
How the World Grew Rich
22 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, labour economics Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell – Robert Bork Hearings (1987)
07 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics, labour economics, law and economics Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, Robert Bork, Thomas Sowell
.@PPTANews @TraceyMartinMP made best ever argument 4 #charterschools @maori_party
28 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, politics - New Zealand
Talk about giving the giving the game away. The only way a state school can do as well as a chartered school in delivering to students is giving it more money than a chartered school can do to deliver the same results.
That is the best ever argument for a charter school, they provide better value for the education dollar. Is my logic faulty?
Saving Endangered Species
25 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis Tags: endangered species, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
#Seinfeld Economics: The Chinese Restaurant (Bribing Maitre d’)
09 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics Tags: rationing, Seinfeld
Does it Feel Good or Does it Do Good?
08 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: expressive voting, rational irrationality
Seinfeld Economics: The Shower Head (black markets)
07 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, environmentalism, television Tags: black markets, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, Seinfeld, The fatal conceit, water economics
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