
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Nobel Symposium Randall Kroszner Lessons from the global financial crisis, and crises past
19 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: sovereign defaults
Debate: Abolish Banking Insurance?
18 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, privatisation, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Masters of Finance: William F. Sharpe
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in financial economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
Samuelson (1974) on the efficient markets hypothesis
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing

Why Jordan Peterson is certain Icelands equal pay laws will fail
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, financial economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: gender wage gap
The wages of sin are still paying for the Vice Fund
15 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, passive investing, picking winners

Masters of Finance: Eugene Fama
13 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, economics of information, financial economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
Milton Friedman on old fallacies that never die at central banks
12 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, financial economics, great depression, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Nobel Symposium Kenneth Rogoff Indebtedness of governments, firms, and households
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars





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