Thomas Sowell Brings the World into Focus through an Economics Lens
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit
World Energy Production by Source 1860 – 2019
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics
Climate Alarmism Isn’t Rational
09 Sep 2019 8 Comments
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism
More monopolies for @NZComCom to fret over: Best-Selling Mobile Phone Makers 1992 – 2018
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law
Ten Minute History – The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace
Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
P. T. Bauer on the ravages of colonialism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism

Sargent is a bit cross with the Romer and Romer narrative of post-war stabilisation
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics

From Commentary: The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy at
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.203.4565&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Richard Allen Posner on crisis in capitalism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Richard Posner Tags: bank panics
Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination
The Stinky Reputation of 17th Century Versailles
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: France





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