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

Deconstructing Chomsky @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
27 Jul 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, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: regressive left, The fatal conceit
Do @AOC or @SenSanders disagree?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin, East Germany, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit

James Dresnok: The US Soldier Who Defected to North Korea
23 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: North Korea
Different angle
23 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: maps

Paul Krugman on virtue signaling over sweatshop labour in export industries in poor countries
21 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice Tags: child labour, The Great Escape
But Castro made healthcare so good in Cuba
19 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice

From Dictator’s Handbook
Operations Research and The Revolution in Aggregate Economics Edward Prescott
19 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycles
The Great Escape
14 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

A natural experiment
12 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: Cuba, Hong Kong





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