The Bizarre Market for Old Battleship Steel
24 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: atomic bomb tests
Journey Across a Century of Women
23 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, gender wage gap
#endcoal’s lack of progress #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
19 Nov 2020 Leave a comment

What Actually Happened When Slaves Were Freed
16 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: American Civil War
Blaspheming while it is still legal in NZ
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of religion, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

William Magear Boss Tweed: The Tiger of Tammany
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, politics - USA, Public Choice
Has anything changed? #globalwarming #climateemergency #endoil #endcoal @Greens
13 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists

The Age of the Pyramid Builders
13 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Egypt
The Kefauver Committee and Organized crime
13 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, organised crime
Tollison on Smith and corporate governance
12 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: corporate governance

Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences



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