
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

David Levine on the impossibility of predicting the timing of a crisis
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis

Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
David Levine on why the timing of crashes and crises cannot be predicted
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, The fatal conceit

How Budget Airlines Work
05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, transport economics
Piketty’s best work was on the emergence of a working rich
03 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: superstars, top 1%

In the Wake of Hurricanes, Crisis Investors See Opportunity | @WSJ
01 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of natural disasters, entrepreneurship, politics - USA
Richard Epstein on discrimination in the marketplace
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of information, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: market selection, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) | (1/3) | Trust
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, movies Tags: active investing, securities fraud
Thomas Sowell on losing his religion
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

Larry White on the emptiness of Minsky moments
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Post-Keynesian macroeconomics




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