Good repost from McGrattan and Prescott using intangible capital measurement improvements
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From A Reassessment of Real Business Cycle Theory. McGrattan, Ellen R; Prescott, Edward C. The American Economic Review; Nashville Vol. 104, Iss. 5, (May 2014): 177-18
The case against the nanny state
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in economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: nanny state

@nzdrug referendum slogan is “too many drug dealers are in prison”?
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in economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: marijuana decrimilization

David Friedman Speaking at the Freedom Summit – Market Failure
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, market efficiency, property rights, Public Choice Tags: market failure
David D. Friedman With some thoughts on his new book
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, libertarianism, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of anarchy
Terminal Patients Got Drugs Without FDA Approval. It Added Years to Their Lives.
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in economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA Tags: drug lags
Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and Liberty 1987
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of information, economics of regulation
Conversations with History: Gary Becker
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gary Becker, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice
Little has changed
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, energy economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit

David D. Friedman | Market failure
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, Gordon Tullock, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: market failure
Andrea Dworkin made equivocal remarks when her books were seized by customs under antiporngraphy laws she supported
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, gender, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, unintended consequences

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