
#plasticbagfascism comes to @kfcnz: how do you carry 2 drinks if the bag has no handles? Must clasp bag leaving only 1 hand free @eugeniesage?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: recycling

A conundrum for the anti-science left on GMOs too
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conspiracy theorists, GMOs, vaccines

The risks of doing business in 1990s Russia
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, fall of communism, transitional economies

Georgia?
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: doing business, The Great Enrichment

Jack Hirshleifer: economics in one page
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, marijuana decrimilization, rent control

Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit

Sam Peltzman on the revolution that Harold Demsetz seeded
02 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Sam Peltzman
David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Murray Rothbard on who gains from statistics
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation
Justice Scalia on securing religious accommodations through normal democratic means
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: Freedom of religion

@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law

George Stigler on the long list of critics of capitalism
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, George Stigler Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias






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