
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%
If true, someone might have noticed these towns well before recently
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, urban economics Tags: Australia, Australian history, political correctness, regressive left

Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment

August 1920 – Our World 100 Years Ago I THE GREAT WAR
23 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: World War I
The withering away of the proletariat @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment, top 1%

The Great Fact
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

Gordon Tullock on an accidental economic miracle
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: South Korea, The Great Escape

The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR – August Coup of 1991 #OTD
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Crime, Violence, and Progress With Steven Pinker (Ep.9)
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Great Enrichment


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