On World Toilet Day, the focus is on gender equality, dignity and greater access to education and jobs
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
Pink taxis hit India’s streets to keep women safe
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, law and economics, transport economics, urban economics
More of the Great Escape for @Oxfamnz @Greenpeace to never RT
17 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape

Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes (amazing story)
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: bribery and corruption, India
The IPCC is the final word on climate science for @jamespeshaw except when it tells inconvenient truths
13 May 2019 Leave a comment

Branko Milanovic explains why Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist is (neo-colonial) nonsense
12 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Marxist economics Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
What might be wrong with Behavioral Economics: Deirdre McCloskey
12 May 2019 1 Comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Deirdre McCloskey
Another day in the wrong direction according to @KateRaworth!
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

Corruption: A China case study
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: economics of corruption
Which is more important? The gap or which women do the least unpaid housework?
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: marriage and divorce

Jonathan Haidt: Three Stories About Capitalism (2014 WORLD.MINDS)
09 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of religion, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle Tags: moral psychology, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment



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