Milton Friedman on Regulations and Consumers
03 Nov 2020 1 Comment
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Macroeconomic dynamics and reallocation in an epidemic
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
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Markets, Firms and Property Rights – Ronald Coase
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Maori prefer the best available medical care not @TheRACP endorsed woke quackery
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, cranks, political correctness, quackery, regressive left, useful idiots
Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Payday lenders help overcome adverse selection
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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The ubiquity and selectiveness of statistical discrimination
05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Lang and Lehmann 2005, JEL
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
Spot on Bryan Caplan
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Why conspiracy theories are rational to believe
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology
Discrimination at Harvard? | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono [The Glenn Show]
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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To a tee @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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