A political map of the world in 1859-1860
07 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, maps
Stalin: Inside the Terror
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: autocracy, Russia, Stalin, USSR
Thomas Sowell talk in Jacksonville, FL (1993)
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: Thomas Sowell
How the FT reported the D-Day landings in 1944.
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II
How the FT reported the D-Day landings in 1944. We are nothing if not focused on our core mission…always. http://t.co/cEIVRmgEU7—
Financial Times (@FT) June 05, 2014
Poverty halves in #LatinAm in last 10 years, @WBG_Poverty @WorldBank still grumbling
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, poverty and inequality

The World Bank should enquire more as to why particular Latin countries succeeded while others did not and the economic systems employed in each.
#MiltonFriedman v. @berniesanders
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left
Deirdre McCloskey on the importance of paying attention to what happened under the jackboot of neoliberalism
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics
Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here’s Why.
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Nuclear energy is a seriously safe power source
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, health and safety, labour economics Tags: coal prices, comic power, hydroelectric power, nuclear energy, risk risk trade-offs, solar power, wind power
3 common myths about capitalism
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Fact
German territory lost in the 20th century
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: East Germany, economics of borders, Germany, maps, World War I, World War II



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