Rethink The Big Short and the 2008 Financial Crisis | reTHINK TANK
23 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics
A Quarter Century of ‘The Proper Scope of Government’: Theory and Applications | Oliver Hart
09 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
How do you align the incentives of sea captains transporting criminals to Australia with those of the public?
06 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, incentive compatibility, moral hazard
Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance
03 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming
Lunch and Conversation with Thomas J. Sargent
31 May 2021 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Top 15 Biggest Companies by Market Capitalization 1993 – 2019
29 May 2021 Leave a comment
in financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
CEOs take most of their labour surplus with them
26 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: CEO pay, top 1%

Breakdown of Warren Buffett’s Stock Portfolio 1994 – 2021
23 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis
Charles Ponzi: Natural Born Swindler
08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics
Should Companies Put Profits Before Social Responsibility?
31 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Milton Friedman, survivor principle
Buffett on stock values
27 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in financial economics Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing
Very high tech
21 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: corporate law
Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, offsetting behaviour, philosophy of science, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, useful idiots


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