The Panama Canal: The Greatest Engineering Feat in History
21 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health economics, transport economics Tags: megaprojects, Panama
.@cwcalomiris “Thinking Historically about Banking Crises and Bailouts”
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in applied price theory, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Valerie Ramey (2020) on creative destruction and the business cycle
10 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship
David Friedman at Libertopia 2010 on Future Imperfect
08 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights
Andolfatto and McDonald (1996) on the cycle is the trend
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, real business cycles, technology diffusion

.@ProfDBernstein on Posner on racial discrimination by minority businesses in hiring
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: affirmative action, job search, labour market search, racial discrimination

Eugene Fama on share market bubbles
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, pessimism bias, rational expectations

Sinclair Davidson on privatisation
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: /, privatisation








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