Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Does Fractional Reserve Banking Endanger the Economy? A Debate
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights Tags: economics of banking, monetary policy
What drives housing prices up?
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics
The Feel-Good Folly of Fossil-Fuel Divestment! @TaxpayersUnion
01 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: active investing, climate alarmists, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing, pessimism bias
The wages of sin make a comeback after a bad year for the vice fund
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics
Asymmetric Information and Used Cars
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information
Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit
This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmists, expressive voting, nuclear power, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, solar power, virtue signaling, wind power
Why does @Megan_Woods want to raise petrol prices?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, politics - New Zealand
My @NZHerald op-ed @nzdrug @_chloeswarbrick @familyfirstnz
27 Feb 2020 2 Comments
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: marijuana decrimilisation
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality










Recent Comments