
P. T. Bauer on the ravages of colonialism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism

@AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment

Eric Posner on the paradoxes of having laws of war
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Watch “Professor Deirdre McCloskey: How Ideas can Change the World
29 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice
Exploring Liberty: The Problem of Political Ignorance
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance
George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias

The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

How the marketplace for ideas deals with Nazis when do-gooders aren’t making things far worse with censorship
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: free speech, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots




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