Daron Acemoğlu: “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: autocracy
How many cultures had an Age of Enlightenment? Fought a war to end slavery?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, American Civil War

Mexico in WW1 – The Mexican Revolution I THE GREAT WAR Special
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, war and peace Tags: Mexico, World War I
James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Fictional Conversation Between Emma Goldman and John Reed – a must watch for @AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Russian revolution
Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism, imperialism
Sweatshops Are a Dream when your children live in a Dante-like vision of hell
05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: Cambodia, child labour, extreme poverty, The fatal conceit

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
Borders are revealing
02 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders

@BernieSanders on the Soviet Union Press Conference 06 13 1988
01 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit, useful idiots
Life as a North Korean Elite | Former Ambassador Thae Yong-ho | China Uncensored
01 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: China, North Korea
George Stigler on workers of the world uniting and voting with their feet
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: autocracy, fall of communism, World War II
Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape


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