
Why new diseases keep appearing in China @NZHumanRights @voxdotcom
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Sound #globalwarming #climateemergency advice to @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @mfe_news @AOC @greenpeaceusa
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: China, climate alarmists, expressive voting, India, nuclear energy, pessimism bias, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, virtue signaling

Has @greenpeaceusa @oxfam ever campaigned against indoor air pollution caused by energy poverty?
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - USA

Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

Does GDP growth overstate progress?
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

From Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba
Anti-science @Greenpeace @GreenpeaceAP @GreenpeaceUSA @GreenpeaceUK @Greens @NZGreens @TheGreenParty
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, health economics Tags: anti-GMOs movement, Anti-Science left, pessimism bias, regressive left

#climateemergency #globalwarming anti-science @GreenpeaceUK @TheGreenParty
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, international economics, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: virtue signaling

Creative destruction
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, India

@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, Cuba, regressive left

Small bills are a big problem as I remember from handling dirty, disgusting Philippine pesos that were never taken out of circulation. Yuk
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, history of economic thought, monetary economics

From https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/9780472116317-ch1.pdf
The shortage of small bills in the Philippines became critical around election time because there is such a need for bribe money for voters. 300 pesos each was usually delivered to every door.




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