Innovation types
1 incremental
2 extension
3 copycat
4 water down
5 FAD
6 overanalyzed
7 complicated
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Repugnant markets and the demand and supply for counterfeit legal ivory
17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, law and economics, property rights Tags: black markets, counterfeit goods, economics of prohibition, endangered species, offsetting the, unintended consequences
A huge legal sale of ivory in 2008 backfired. Instead of crashing the price of ivory and undermining poaching, poaching exploded in East Africa. It increased by 65%.
The international trade in ivory was banned in 1989. In 2008, China and Japan were allowed to pay $15m for 107 tonnes of ivory from elephants that died naturally in four African nations.
Source: Study finds global legalization trial escalates elephant poaching | Berkeley News.
Hsiang and Sekar this week found that this legal sale of ivory was followed by “an abrupt, significant, permanent, robust and geographically widespread increase” in ivory poaching. They were right to conclude that the legal sale provided a cover for poached ivory.
The economic intuition was that if we allow the sale of some legal ivory in Japan and China, then there would be fewer people left to purchase it illegally. We found that that intuition was incorrect. The black market for ivory responded to the announcement of a legal sale as an opportunity to smuggle even more ivory.
The legal sale of ivory created new demand for ivory in China, where it no longer had the stigma of an illicit product. The presence of legal ivory provided cover for smugglers trying to peddle illegal ivory sourced from poachers.
As illegal ivory can now masquerade as legal ivory in China, transporting and selling illicit ivory has gotten easier and cheaper, which can boost illegal production even though prices are falling.
Ivory is a repugnant market. Many friends will be revolted by you having ivory products.
The presence of legal ivory made it possible for counterfeit legal ivory to be passed off as legal ivory and therefore your friends will not reject you. This is a real and striking example of a unintended consequence. The solution to poaching is property rights.
A Price Is a Signal Wrapped up in an Incentive
13 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: spontaneous order
Creative destruction in photos since 1826
11 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, technological progress
Kodak built the Apple QuickTake, the world’s first consumer digital camera but decided it did not want to put its name to it. Kodak went bankrupt in 2012.
Tyler Cowen on Joseph Schumpeter
10 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Creative destruction in mass media employment since 1990
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, legacy media, mass media, radio, social media
The Bureau of Labour Statistics chart included books which I took it out along with a few others to confine the information to newspapers and other competitors in the mass media. People still study journalism but more and more go to public relations jobs in government and business.
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#feelthebern will raise your taxes
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics, entrepreneurship, health economics, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, antimarket bias, expressive voting, living wage, Old Left, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Creative destruction in personal computing platforms
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, desktops, entrepreneurial alertness, PCs, smartphones
The IBM personal computer sold for $4,385 in 1981
08 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: creative destruction, good old days, PCs
#MiltonFriedman v. @berniesanders
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, Leftover Left
Hayek on what determines market incomes
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: distributive justice, social justice
Big Mac Economics
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, economics, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: BigMac Index, entrepreneurial alertness, McDonald's, purchasing power parity
Paper Towns- Fake Places Made to Catch Copyright Thieves
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, maps, patents and copyrights
How Budget Airlines Work
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, transport economics Tags: budget airlines, entrepreneurial alertness
Few of the top 50 billionaires inherited their wealth
01 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality, unions Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, inherited wealth, superstar wages, superstars, top 0.1%, top 1%
Of the 15 inheritance based billionaires, three are from the Walton family, two are the Koch brothers and another three are from the Mars family.
Source: The world’s top 50 billionaires: A demographic breakdown.
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