George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981)
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Richard Posner Politics in the Supreme Court
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Bureaucrats a heterodox economist trusts big time to pick winners are too witless to phone to confirm her credit card details
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Thinking Big Again
- From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovative Labour
- Technology, Innovation and Growth
- Risk-Taking State: From ‘De-risking’ to ‘Bring It On!’
- The US Entrepreneurial State
- The State behind the iPhone
- Pushing vs. Nudging the Green Industrial Revolution
- Wind and Solar Power: Government Success Stories and Technology in Crisis
- Risks and rewards: From Rotten Apples to Symbiotic Ecosystems
- Socialization of Risk and Privatization of Rewards: Can the Entrepreneurial State Eat Its Cake Too?
- Conclusion
MARIANA MAZZUCATO is a Professor in Economics at the University of Sussex, where she holds the RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy. She is interested in the interactions between technological change, economic growth, and the ways that industries are structured. Her recent work has looked at the leading role of the State in fostering innovation, and hence the implications of ‘austerity’ for Europe’s ability to be an ‘Innovation Union’. In her last book The Entrepreneurial State she argues that active State investment has been the secret behind most radical innovations, and that this requires economists to analyse the State as market ‘maker’ and market ‘shaper’ not just market ‘fixer’.
WHY PEOPLE LOVE TO GOSSIP – William von Hippel
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@TimurKuran: Persistent Authoritarianism in the Middle East and the Islamic Law
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Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”
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David D. Friedman: the Case for Anarcho-Capitalism Ep. 100
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David Friedman – Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
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The Balance of Power: States, Societies, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty – James Robinson
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Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism with Commentary by Paul Bjerk
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Another dilemma for the woke left
16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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The Great Fact
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The Age of Enlightenment was the jewel of Western civilization
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Timur Kuran on “The Portal”, “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception.”
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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