Hayek Lecture 2018: How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change The World?
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: The Great Enrichment
Nordhous cancels the class war @Ocasio2018 @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @oxfamnz
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, Roman empire, Thomas Sowell
What makes countries rich or poor?
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape
Elephant Man – The Weird & Tragic History of Joseph Merrick
08 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
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That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
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Why women’s pockets suck: @voxdotcom @thegoods spot persistent, known but untapped profit opportunity in supplying unflattering pants to women?
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, gender, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
More Sex is Safer Sex | Prof Steven Landsburg
06 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson on institutions and economic development
05 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment

Steven Landsburg Discusses Incentives and Taxes
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
The Spanish Flu I THE GREAT WAR Epilogue 2
04 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, health economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
04 Dec 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: Thomas Sowell

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