Lee Ohanian on crisis management
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, George Stigler, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias

Woolworth Lunch Counter civil rights sit-in
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: racial discrimination
P.T. Bauer on Indian customs
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of religion, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: extreme poverty, India

Worst case scenario by 2100 is 1m; five times the rise since 1870, sea level rises no one noticed
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, global warming

Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: automation, creative destruction
The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

Daron Acemoglu: Robots and Jobs
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: automation, creative destruction
My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots





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