Steven Pinker: Blank Slate
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, health economics, law and economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology
Museum of Neoliberalism
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, Karl Popper, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Berlin wall Border troops (Grenztruppen)
09 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: East Germany, fall of communism, fall of the Berlin wall
#OTD The fall of the #BerlinWall @guardian @jeremycorbyn @SenSanders @Ocasio2018
09 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: East Germany, fall of communism, fall of the Berlin wall
The Great Escape
09 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, child poverty, infant mortality, The Great Escape

P.T. Bauer on beggars in India
06 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, P.T. Bauer Tags: India

Tirole on the economics of crises
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, development economics, economics of information, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, market efficiency, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bank panics

The Tyranny of Experts
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom
Angus Deaton on randomised trials and the class war
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, experimental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba, East Germany, fall of communism
Why Turkey is invading Syria
02 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, International law, labour supply, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Syrian Civil War
Duflo and Banerje are a cross between Trump and crazy Bernie on economic populism
31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-foreign bias, economics of immigration, free trade




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