
Note for Eastern Bloc tourists @jeremycorbyn @SenSanders #OTD
03 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: Berlin wall, fall of communism

Why Did Old Timey Boxers All Pose for Photos With the Same Silly Stance?
02 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, sports economics Tags: boxing
Joan Robinson really was a useful idiot
02 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought Tags: China, fall of communism, useful idiots

Top 10 Shortest Lived States in History
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, International law Tags: economics of borders
David D. Friedman — A Positive Account of Rights (Budapest, 2018)
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
Doug Allen “The Duel of Honor – screening for unobserved social capital”
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, human capital, law and economics, property rights Tags: asymmetric information, screening, signalling
The Science of Lying
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Robert Lucas wrote a 1978 paper predicting less self-employment because of rising wages
29 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Sweden Not a Socialist Success
29 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: Sweden


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