Create a Black Market the Easy Way!
20 May 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation Tags: offsetting behaviour, price controls, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
What Circumstances Led to the Titanic Sinking?
12 May 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, transport economics
The wages of sin are not what they used to be: The Vice Fund
30 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics
Disney’s Special Tax District in Florida, Explained | @WSJ
26 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, movies, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, television Tags: zoning
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

Speaking of the anti-science left
13 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics Tags: anti-GMOs movement, Anti-Science left

Milton Friedman Why free markets work
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
Josh Wright | UCLA Law and Economics, Relational Contracts, and Antitrust
04 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm Tags: competition law
Is Market Failure an argument against government? – David Friedman
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights Tags: market failure
Robert Lucas: Labor Reform and Crisis Recovery
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: employment law
Your work on the US found that productivity shocks explain most of the cyclical fluctuations the economy has experienced. Does this finding have any bearing on the nature of public policy?
17 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
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