
One-child policy compared
15 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: ageing society, economics of fertility

The Man Who Made Hong Kong
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, Hong Kong
David Friedman on opposition to foreign investment
13 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, income redistribution, international economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking
Spoils of War for Britain and France – Redrawing the Map of the Middle East I THE GREAT WAR 1920
27 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, World War I
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Cousin Marriage Is Not Choice: Muslim Marriage and Underdevelopment
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of religion, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights
Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
#EarthDay @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @AOC @BernieSanders @Oxfam @SenWarren
23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Escape

The Corona Shutdown is Unsustainable: Bjorn Lomborg on the Ben Shapiro show
21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists
Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape
Still more on #marilynwaring and economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic growth, economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, gender wage gap, marital division of labour, marital labour supply







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