Uber and the Great Taxicab Collapse
02 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, taxi regulation, Uber
Creative destruction in dot.com companies
02 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: creative destruction
Taken before helicopter parenting
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health and safety Tags: helicopter parenting
Creative destruction in health crises
30 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: creative destruction, obesity, The Great Escape
Americans started consuming fewer calories when they saw the health crisis, not the jiggle. nyti.ms/1SMGoYE http://t.co/xsFR3U71tO—
The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) July 29, 2015
Creative destruction in Silicon Valley
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition as a discovery procedure, creative destruction, efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, ICT, Silicon Valley
Surging #SiliconValley — in 5 charts ow.ly/Qftvp http://t.co/1bGCz8G1dB—
(@AEI) July 29, 2015
The March on Washington, this day in 1963
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: civil rights
The world economy in one pie chart
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
This striking diagram will change how you look at the world economy vox.com/maps/2015/8/21… http://t.co/XPYZPqTEHY—
Vox (@voxdotcom) August 21, 2015
The Moon rises over South Dakota
29 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: moon
Supermoon rises over road to nowhere in eastern South Dakota http://t.co/sbmT0sjw5I—
Our Planet Earth (@wxwows) August 02, 2015
Expulsions of Jews across Europe during the Medieval & Early Modern periods
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-semitism, European history
Expulsions of Jews across Europe during the Medieval & Early Modern periods. http://t.co/4HKGlNCjou—
History Facts 247 (@historyfacts247) July 08, 2015
Creative destruction in digital cameras
28 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
Kodak's first prototype digital camera, 1975 http://t.co/pcHfjKxZiS—
Classic Pics (@classicepics) August 22, 2015
People do respond to the price of petrol, even in American
27 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics Tags: Oil prices
Oil price down, economy up, driving up. Econ 101 at work. So much for "peak travel." http://t.co/hYZANMf1nF—
Gernot Wagner (@GernotWagner) August 21, 2015
The Chinese demographic crisis is now
26 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: ageing society, China, demographic crisis, older workers
China's massive economic advantage over the world is about to disappear read.bi/1MkYx1p http://t.co/Fw9zmMTuVx—
BI Markets (@themoneygame) August 11, 2015
Map of undersea cables around the world
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, international economics, technological progress Tags: map, undersea cables
The undersea cables wiring the Earth (2014).
(Explanation at: bit.ly/1yBFuEL) http://t.co/IWzrKL5pDl—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 25, 2015
@NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ @PeakOil and peak #coal are in the past
25 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: antimarket bias, devastate prophecies, entrepreneurial alertness, peak coal, peak oil, rational ignorance
The evolution of American energy consumption since 1776 businessinsider.com/evolution-of-a… http://t.co/APT8NQZfmg—
Elena Holodny (@elenaholodny) August 21, 2015
The ups and downs of the Greek economy
25 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Eurosclerosis, Greece, sovereign debt crisis, sovereign defaults
@ObsoleteDogma @rodrikdani http://t.co/xKx43wjWHy—
David Andolfatto (@dandolfa) June 30, 2015
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