Usage Share of Internet Browsers 1996 – 2019. I am sure @NZComCom was convinced Netscape had a monopoly
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, The fatal conceit
Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: patents and copyright
Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: CEO pay, envy, superstars
If so, you wonder how @NZComCom explains the survival of: legacy media, dot.com industries, MySpace, Yahoo, Uber, airlines and new or high fixed cost industries. More on that later
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: competition law

Despite itself, @nzcomcom reveals rampant secret price discounting in the petrol cartel/oligopoly
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: cartel enforcement, cartel theory, competition law

@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

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





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