Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: patents and copyright
Tullock on juries
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics Tags: juries

@bryan_caplan’s education is signalling argument in 1 job ad: no camera in my phone for similar ad in a poor province in the central Philippines
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment
David Friedman | Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, property rights
A conundrum for the anti-science left on GMOs too
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conspiracy theorists, GMOs, vaccines

Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit

Can Cities Sue Oil Companies for Climate Change? [POLICYbrief]
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nuisance suits








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