Chris Rock – Gun Control
02 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of regulation, television
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
George H. Smith Debates David D. Friedman: Ethics vs. Economics (1981)
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, environmental economics, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anarchocapitalism
Akerlof’s lemons paper showed how markets profited from overcoming asymmetric information
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: asymmetric information

Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
A note for anti-science left especially given its embrace of climate science denial. Previously hollowed consensus isn’t pessimistic enough to justify the Green New Deal
13 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmism, pessimism bias

Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
12 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, moral hazard
Econ Duel: Why Is the Rent So Damn High?
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, rent control
The solution to the #ClimateEmergency is at hand but is ignored because it might work @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, Thomas Schelling Tags: international public goods








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