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
P.T. Bauer (1959) on the Permit Raj at its most bizarre and cruel
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: India

O-Ring Model
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Shame on @greenpeace
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of information, environmental economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: regressive left, The Great Escape

On the ethics of the randomisters
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption

Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit







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