The ever-changing indictment against capitalism
16 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history
Creative destruction in high tech
14 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Little wonder JFK bribed his way passed navy medical. Little chance of political career otherwise
12 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, politics - USA, Public Choice
Top 10 Berlin Wall Escapes
11 Nov 2017 1 Comment
in economic history, Marxist economics Tags: Berlin wall
Another gender gap that dare not speak its name
10 Nov 2017 2 Comments
in economic history, gender Tags: gender gap
Racism is said to be getting worse in the USA!?
05 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, Public Choice
Back in the good old days in the southern states of America, before we were driven into panic rooms by micro-aggressions, there were white citizens councils that would record in their minutes voting to have someone murdered. Such was their sense of impunity.
Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens’ Councils met openly and were seen as “pursuing the agenda of the Klan with the demeanour of the Rotary Club” by “unleashing a wave of economic reprisals against anyone, Black or white, seen as a threat to the status quo”. In Mississippi, the State Sovereignty Commission funded the Citizens’ Councils.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 broke the control of segregationists over their political and legal institutions. The racial segregation collapsed because it could no longer rely on Jim Crow laws and the private violence and boycotts through the White Citizens Councils which police turned a blind eye too when they were not actively involved.
Jean Tirole on creative destruction in France and the USA
05 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle
How the borders of the United States have changed in 200 years
03 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: economics of borders
Deirdre McCloskey on the grumblings of the Twitter Left
30 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, growth miracles, poverty and inequality
Source: The Duel: Is inequality the root of all social ills? | Prospect Magazine.
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Christopher Columbus Was a Murderous Moron
30 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration
Top 10 Things That Are BETTER Than They Were 50 YEARS AGO
29 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: The Great Escape
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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