
The 1918 Pandemic: why the Spanish Flu was the Deadliest Flu in History
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, health economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

Does Fractional Reserve Banking Endanger the Economy? A Debate
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: economics of banking, monetary policy
Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Canny summary of Sowell
29 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination, The fatal conceit

Does GDP growth overstate progress?
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

From Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba








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