
Creative destruction
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, India

Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism

The Great Fact @oxfam @greenpeace
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: child mortality, extreme poverty, infant mortality, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

Debate on Progress Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton
11 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
Question for @AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Cuba, Hong Kong, The Great Enrichment

Ryugyong Hotel: North Korea’s Hotel of Doom
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism, North Korea
Overpopulation is back in the news
24 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of love and marriage, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, population economics, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility, population bomb

Finn Kydland on economic policy
22 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Edward Prescott, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, inflation targeting, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas Tags: game theory, real business cycle theory






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