The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
Executive Power & the Louisiana Purchase
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
The Great Escape in child mortality
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, health economics Tags: child mortality, extreme poverty, infant mortality, The Great Escape

From the good old days
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: road safety

English Civil War: Crash Course European History
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of religion, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: British history, English Civil War, Glorious revolution
David Bernstein on the hollow hope that antidiscrimination laws lead social progress
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Can Cities Sue Oil Companies for Climate Change? [POLICYbrief]
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nuisance suits
Acemoglu and Robinson on the geography hypothesis
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: endogenous growth theory

Daron Acemoğlu: “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: autocracy
Mankiw (2006) on Keynes still ruling at central banks
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, history of economic thought, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetary policy

How many cultures had an Age of Enlightenment? Fought a war to end slavery?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, American Civil War




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