Indian reservations are pockets of poverty
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economics of education, economics of regulation, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: racial discrimination
Good summary
25 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, Robert E. Lucas, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
Hayek and Pandemic Response with Professor Mark Pennington
23 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
HT Cafe Hayek
Did NZ go fast and early on #COVID19?
20 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
Behind on my #GMO blogging @Greenpeace @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam
20 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, cranks, regressive left
Global Pricing of Pharmaceutical Products: Richard Epstein on the Ethics of Global Health
04 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: drug pricing, patents and copyright
#COVID19 and the wages of sin; how is the Vice Fund going?
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of regulation, financial economics, health economics
From https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/VICEX:US
USA Mutuals Vitium Global Fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in equity securities of companies that derive a significant portion of their revenues from a group of vice industries that includes the alcoholic beverages, defense/aerospace, gaming and tobacco industries. The Fund will concentrate at least 25% of its net assets in this group of four vice industries.
Rule of law
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, international economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: offsetting behaviour, regulatory takings, unintended consequences
Lost on @WHO @Greens @NZGreens nanny state
02 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of smoking, nanny state
.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 7 – Who Protects the Consumer?
27 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, survivor principle, television Tags: consumer fraud, consumer protection
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 1 – The Power of the Market
21 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle, television Tags: capitalism and freedom
The staggering cost of NIMBYISM
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning
Doing Bad by Doing Good by Chris Coyne
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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