Debunking the myths of “buying local” food policies”
15 Oct 2019 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, health economics, international economics Tags: food snobs, pessimism bias
Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, market efficiency, survivor principle, transport economics, war and peace Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
My favourite economist joke as told by David Friedman
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics Tags: agent principal problem, asymmetric information, moral hazard

Steven Pinker: Modern Denial of Human Nature
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
V.V. Chari testifies on modern macroeconomics and information prerequisites to predicting the GFC
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Clarkson explains why cycling is bad for the environment
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmists
Exaggeration About Global Warming Is Greater Than Ever
04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in climate change, development economics, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism
How Nordhaus responded to #globalwarming skeptics
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, philosophy of science

Deception and self-deception are vital evolutionary survival strategies
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information Tags: evolutionary psychology
Robert Trivers on the evolutionary biology of social cooperation
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, law and economics Tags: evolutionary psychology

From the Dunedin longitudinal tudy
24 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order, marriage and divorce, single mothers




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