
Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

Larry White on the emptiness of Minsky moments
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics

George Stigler on the long list of critics of capitalism
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, George Stigler Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: British history, economics of languages
How Far Back in Time Could an English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: British history, economics of languages
Why was India Partitioned?
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, India, World War II
How Free was the Free City of Danzig?
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics Tags: World War I, World War II
@NYTimes: A Black Professor Says in 1970 on affirmative action at elite universities
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Deconstructing Chomsky @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: regressive left, The fatal conceit
Do @AOC or @SenSanders disagree?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin, East Germany, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit

Pointed
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of religion, gender, law and economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination






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