The 1st @PaulKrugman explains globalisation to @SenSanders @JeremyCorbyn
04 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, globalisation, Leftover Left, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Source: Enemies of the WTO (1999).
Deirdre McCloskey summarises Rawls and Nozick on unequal incomes
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: creative destruction, Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%, veil of ignorance, veil of uncertainty
Source: Review of Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets by Deirdre McCloskey August 1, 2012. Shorter version published in the Claremont Review of Books XII(4), Fall 2012 via Deirdre McCloskey: editorials.
Apparently inequality is getting worse according to those that know better as they talk down to us
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
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To start the year on a positive note
01 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
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The role of fossil fuels in The Great Escape
30 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, growth miracles Tags: energy poverty, Fossil Fuels, Oil prices, The Great Escape
Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg – The Elephant Graph
23 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Fact
Great Escape passed by @WorldBank’s preoccupation with RCT (randomised controlled trials) as next big thing in development policy
04 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth miracles, history of economic thought Tags: randomised controlled trials, The fatal conceit, The Great Escape, The pretense to knowledge
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