.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, College premium, graduate premium, screening, self-selection, signaling
Hayek (1950) on why the current stimulus will fail
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy, Keynesian macroeconomics

Patrick Moore: 12 Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, Marxist economics Tags: pessimism bias
Share buybacks limit free cash and managerial excesses
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: agent principal problem
Anti-science left @Greens @NZGreens @greenpeace
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of regulation, economics of religion, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, health economics Tags: anti-market bias, Anti-Science left

Confidence building measure at local supermarket front door
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics

It isn’t cheap being @NZGreen @Greens @GreenpeaceAP #globalwarming #climateemergency @mfe_news @jamespeshaw
12 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

The great contraction in safe collateral
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, efficient markets hypothesis, moral hazard









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