
The Great Escape
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics

Something to cheer up @Greenpeace and @oxfam at the end of a long week
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: energy poverty, The Great Escape

Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism
James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, British empire, economics of colonialism
Acemoglu and Robinson on West Africa after decolonisation
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Africa, economics of colonialism

When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

Question for @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall

Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism







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