Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria
03 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
07 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, unintended consequences

Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia?
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Malaysia, racial discrimination, Singapore
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 2 – The Tyranny of Control
22 May 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, television Tags: capitalism and freedom, India, Japan
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 1 – The Power of the Market
21 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle, television Tags: capitalism and freedom
Gordon Tullock explains the Korean economic miricle
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: South Korea

One-child policy compared
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility

The Man Who Made Hong Kong
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, Hong Kong
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
#EarthDay @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @Oxfam @SenWarren
23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape

Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape




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