In 5 Responses to Climate Change Deniers, Robert Reich explains inadvertently how the #climateemergency is a small problem, only twice the cost of the Great Recession
17 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global financial crisis (GFC), global warming, macroeconomics Tags: climate alarmism
Colonialism and stone age people
16 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, liberalism, politics - Australia Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism, The Great Enrichment
How Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power Drove India From Poverty to The Moon
16 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, moon landings, space
Coal-fired power is at the heart of India’s mission to lift millions out of poverty. India has 285 plants with a capacity of 211GW already operating; it’s currently building a further 30GW of coal-fired generation capacity, with a further 35GW in pre-construction stages. A visit to India shows how serious it is about serious power […]
How Cheap & Reliable Coal-Fired Power Drove India From Poverty to The Moon
Price Discrimination saves lives: Glaxo’s AIDS drugs
02 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, health economics
Link to article: Some 28 shipments [of low-priced AIDS drugs] were diverted from African countries to Paris and Brussels, then moved to Antwerp, where the customs officers noticed something was amiss. The drugs then moved into the normal wholesale chain and were sold at European prices – up to £3.80 a tablet instead of the…
Price Discrimination saves lives: Glaxo’s AIDS drugs
What have the Romans ever done for us?
28 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: British history, Roman empire
What did the Americas Look like before and after Conquest? | Thomas Sowell
18 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, Thomas Sowell
Book Talk with Brad DeLong
13 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles
India has a criminal infested parliament
06 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: India
This is what they don’t teach you about colonization
18 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Thomas Sowell Tags: economics of colonialism
How the West Destroyed Slavery Around the World | Thomas Sowell
12 Jul 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: age of empires, economics of slavery
Bob Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business Cycles 2/5/2007
19 May 2023 Leave a comment
in business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Why did so many countries get involved in the Boxer Rebellion?
02 May 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, international economics, International law, war and peace Tags: China
The wisdom of John Cowperthwaite
19 Apr 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, history of economic thought Tags: Hong Kong
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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