Why Thomas Sowell Transitioned Away From Marxism
27 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman at Hillsdale College 2006
27 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Hayek and Robert Bork Part II on intellectuals, the impossibility of sociology and generality
25 May 2019 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Plastic Straw Myths
24 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Gary Becker — The Economist’s Economist
22 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Freedom, Friedman, & Family Trajectory: David Friedman – Blue Frontiers Podcast E09
22 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of crime, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, law and economics, libertarianism, property rights Tags: anarchocapitalism
Sam Peltzman Regulation and the wealth of nations
21 May 2019 Leave a comment
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Creative destruction in taxi medallions
20 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: taxi regulation, transitional gains trap
Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities April 2019
19 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell
Thomas J. Sargent speaks on Euro Crisis
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, international economics, International law, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: moral hazard, sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults, Thomas Sargent
Religions should never be prevented by antidiscrimination and hate speech laws from showing their true colors
18 May 2019 Leave a comment

Biggest Threat to the Resistance You’ve Never Heard of: SLAPP and free speech
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: defamation, free speech
Firing Line – Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981)
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
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