
Prescott on monetary policy
23 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, great depression, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy

Will Medsafe delay a #COVID19 vaccine by 6-months? @DomPost letter
16 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: drug lags, economics of pandemics


Tollison on Smith and corporate governance
12 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: corporate governance

Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Thatcher’s Last Stand Against Socialism
07 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Milton Friedman on Regulations and Consumers
03 Nov 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi: The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State
03 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: industry policy, picking winners
Still more on economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: female labour supply, marriage and divorce

Searching for Answers with Randomized Experiments
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, history of economic thought Tags: philosophy of science
Markets, Firms and Property Rights – Ronald Coase
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
The Four Horsemen of the Economic Revolution
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycles
Robert E. Lucas: The Wealth of Nations in the 21st Century
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Robert E. Lucas Tags: The Great Enrichment

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