A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption
Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit
@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of socialism, The fatal conceit
Pritchett on the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
Douglass North and Timur Kuran: Institutions and Economic Performance
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Economic Reasoning Applied to Sociology – Becker and Posner
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: economics of AIDS
Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
@WorldBank was said to fight world poverty one staff member at a time. Is one field research grant at a time to reconfirm the obvious any better?
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Nobel prize for discovering if you subsidise something, you see more of it!! Many years worth of randomized controlled trials just to make sure in dirt poor countries. Didn’t know child vaccination payoffs so marginal that you had to check.
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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