Thomas Schelling on #globalwarming, 2005
01 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Thomas Schelling Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias
Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the European monetary crisis
01 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Edward Prescott, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Hazeldine and Rashbrooke on the Kiwi working rich
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, superstars, top 1%
WHERE BROWN V. BOARD FELL SHORT – George Will 1994
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, constitutional law, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Exploring Liberty, Part 4: Simple Rules for a Complex World
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, Richard Epstein Tags: rule of law
Thomas Sargent:The 2011 Nobel Prize Winner For His Work On Relating Policy & Economics. 2017 interview
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, job search and matching, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: monetary policy
Demonetization: When 86% of India’s Currency Disappeared (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard)
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, currency unions, Euro, monetary policy
Exploring Liberty, Part 5: The Machinery of Freedom
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of anarchy
Thomas J. Sargent on macroeconomics and the crisis 2013
27 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, inflation targeting, Jan van Ours, job search and matching, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
The Great Fact @BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, useful idiots

Slavery reparations are in the news
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: capitalism and freedom

“The Recession of 2007 to ?” by Robert E. Lucas – Friedman Forum Lecture 2012
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
A history of macroeconomics| Thomas J. Sargent in China 2020
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Edward Prescott, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%



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