
19th century Bank of England was well on to stigma effects in a banking crisis
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, fisheries economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, bank runs, banking crises, banking panics, lender of last resort, monetary policy, screening

#climateemergency #globalwarming @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left

Nobel Symposium Kenneth Rogoff Indebtedness of governments, firms, and households
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults
Great Schism: The Bitter Rivalry Between Greek and Latin Christianity
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of religion
The French used to drink far too much wine?
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in economic history, health economics

War, poverty and inequality: Is there any good news? | Steven Pinker
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
#OTD #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: pessimism bias

Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars





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