Demonetization: When 86% of India’s Currency Disappeared (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard)
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, currency unions, Euro, monetary policy
The Great Fact @BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, useful idiots

Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment

The Great Fact
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

Qinghai–Tibet Railway: The Highest Railway in the World
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, transport economics
Gordon Tullock on an accidental economic miracle
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: South Korea, The Great Escape

Crime, Violence, and Progress With Steven Pinker (Ep.9)
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
@oxfam @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @AOC
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment

Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, & Scientific Progress | Conversations with Tyler
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle
Free to Grow | John H. Cochrane
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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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


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