John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Free to Grow | John H. Cochrane
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking
Should you defend the free speech rights of neo-Nazis? | Nadine Strossen
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech
James Heckman on affirmative action
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: affirmative action, child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology by Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Glenn C. Loury
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action
#MedicareForAll @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, Canada, health insurance, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Bans on Plastic Bags Harm the Environment
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: recycling
Jason Potts at the Ratio Institute (Innovation commons)
30 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: creative destruction, patents and copyright
Thomas Sowell – Conquests, Migrations, Race and Cultures
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, laws of war, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, racial discrimination





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