Pierre Desrochers explains why the ‘buy local’ food movement overstates environmental benefits
08 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, industrial organisation, transport economics Tags: food miles
Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Fact
When is international action on global warming justified?
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate alarmism, global warming
What are rich countries so grumpy?
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: compensating differentials, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
Deirdre McCloskey and George Will discuss bourgeois inquality
05 May 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
Many emerging countries see steep increase in smartphone ownership
05 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: international technology diffusion, smart phones, technology diffusion
why the world isn’t even more corrupt than what we observe
04 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, Tullock paradox
Tyler Cowen on Peter Bauer
03 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, P.T. Bauer Tags: The Great Escape
Two myths about multinationals by Tyler Cowen
30 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: multinational corporations
Does “Fair Trade” Help?
29 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: fair trade
“Bourgeois Equality” lecture
28 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment
Jeffrey Miron of Havard University explores three myths about capitalism
26 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics Tags: Jeff Miron, The Great Fact

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