
Does GDP growth overstate progress?
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

From Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba
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







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