Explained: The [deadly] Tribe of North Sentinel Island
15 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history
United States and India: Two of the world’s worst countries for women? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
12 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics Tags: gender gap, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left
Alastair Smith – The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
12 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now | Real Time with @BillMaher
11 Aug 2018 1 Comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics, law and economics, war and peace Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Why Hong Kong’s buildings are full of holes
11 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics, urban economics Tags: Hong Kong
Free To Choose 1980 – The Power of the Market – Hong Kong
08 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Milton Friedman, poverty and inequality Tags: Hong Kong, The Great Fact
Does China Run Hollywood?
07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, movies Tags: China
Looking for love in Iran | Unreported World
05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of love and marriage, growth disasters, law and economics Tags: dating market, marriage and divorce
Whatever happened to the food riots predicted by Ehrlich?
05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: agricultural economics, pessimism bias, The Great Escape

Against pessimism bias
01 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment

No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of corruption
The Tullock Paradox. Why is the rent seeking industry so small?
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of corruption
Human progress and how we might blow it (Jonah Goldberg’s “Suicide of the West”)
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment


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