Why megaproject cost overruns?
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Is Market Failure an argument against government? – David Friedman
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights Tags: market failure
Robert Lucas: Labor Reform and Crisis Recovery
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: employment law
Prescott shows a lot of contracting since the end of the tech bubble
27 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: real business cycles

Prescott on monetary booms
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in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics

Human History is Simple – Jordan B Peterson
24 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
Life in Alsace Lorraine
17 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: France, Germany
Your work on the US found that productivity shocks explain most of the cyclical fluctuations the economy has experienced. Does this finding have any bearing on the nature of public policy?
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in business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
The view that technology shocks, those affecting production opportunities, are the major driving force behind business cycles, accounting for about 70 percent of these fluctuations.
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in business cycles, economic history, Edward Prescott, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Tom Ballard at 2018 Marxism conference
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, television
Prescott (1996) on the power of central banks
15 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Money Under Laissez-Faire George Selgin
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy





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