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
The Philippines’ Geographic Challenge
26 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, Public Choice Tags: The Philippines
What role socialism in The Great Escape? @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn @JohnMcDonnellMP #feelthebern
26 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, economics of socialism, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
A new World Bank study shows the dramatic reductions in global poverty and inequality as a result of the spread of market institutions and freer trade.
Source: Capitalism, Global Trade, and the Reduction in Poverty and Inequality | Cato @ Liberty
Freedom as a solution to poverty @Oxfam
24 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, growth miracles Tags: Bill Easterly, The Great Escape, The pretence to knowledge
Poverty in #India under the Permit Raj and then the dead hand of #neoliberalism
24 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket buyers, economics of socialism, India, permit raj, rational irrationality
Thinking about The Great Leap Forward | Econbrowser
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of planning, extreme poverty, famine, Great Leap Forward
P.T. Bauer on @BernieSanders extending #fightfor15 to entire Third World!
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, P.T. Bauer, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign buyers, George Orwell, living wage, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge
India tried that in the 1950s as part of its five-year plans. It did not work that well. Bauer said that in development economics there is a “need to restate the obvious.”
Source: Ending the Race to the Bottom – Bernie Sanders.
Source: Indian Economic Policy and Development – P. T. Bauer (1959) – Google Books
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Walter Block defends multinational corporations in developing countries
18 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply Tags: foreign direct investment, foreign investment, multinational corporations, Walter Bloch
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