
Champ and Freeman on bank capital reserves
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, agent principal problem, deposit insurance, economics of central banking, monetary policy, moral hazard, prudential regulation

What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on self-fulfilling financial crises and speculative attacks
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

George Orwell: The Uncompromising Visionary
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, Marxist economics, Public Choice
Zingales: … would you be in favor of breaking up Standard Oil? Cowen: If Standard Oil were giving away the oil for free, no.
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
“Us” isn’t inclusive! No room for the superiority of Western values: democracy is better, free speech is better, equality of the sexes is better.
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left

Labour supply in the Indian caste system
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of religion, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: caste system, India, religious discrimination
Steven Pinker on the radical left, Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Sam Harris
26 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political correctness, regressive left






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