
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.
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism

The Great Fact @oxfam @greenpeace
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: child mortality, extreme poverty, infant mortality, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment







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