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
Mapping how railroads built America | Maptastic ep 3
05 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics
Question for @AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Cuba, Hong Kong, The Great Enrichment

Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Free to Grow | John H. Cochrane
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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