India and Sri Lanka’s violent fight over fish
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders
#OTD biggest single individual leg up to the Great Enrichment: Mao died
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: China, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

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

Lessons from Africa
04 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption, economics of colonialism, ODA
@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

@AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
29 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics

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
But @BernieSanders is spot on; a Chinese communist hero of his made a big difference to extreme poverty
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, China, extreme poverty, The Great Escape

Robert Lucas on income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Escape, The Great Fact






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