Jordan Peterson: Why Postmodernists are Wrong about Western Civilization
21 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, political psychology, The Great Enrichment
What It Was Like To Live In Ancient Rome During Its Golden Age
20 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, urban economics Tags: Roman empire
Zilibotti on Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory

Taiwanese demographic transition was driven by rising incomes so China’s was decades early
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of love and marriage, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: China, demographic transition, economics of fertility, Taiwan, The Great Escape

Bubbles and crash without news
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, rational expectations

Pessimism in a World of Increasing Abundance (Steven Pinker)
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, International law, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
#OTD 1967
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics Tags: pessimism bias, prophets of doom

Sex discrimination starts before sex is assigned at birth?!
16 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, law and economics Tags: abortion law reform, China, India, one child policy, political correctness

Energy project cost overruns
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice Tags: megaprojects

Innovation and Growth Cycles David Levine
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Federalism, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle
Life behind the Berlin Wall | The Economist
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Berlin, fall of communism, Germany
Life on both sides of the Berlin wall
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: Berlin, fall of communism, Germany



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