
Interest rates and cost-push fallacies
14 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy

Yes Prime Minister on Milton Keynes
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
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
Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Good question from Stephen Williamson
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics
“the day I see economists form a wolf pack or use delegitimisation tactics to descend on the rightwinger who uses ec theory to justify bad public policy, or general life cynicism, rather than vs the lefty who complains about him, is the day I’ll take their claims seriously” said David Gaeber
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, Edward Prescott, history of economic thought, macroeconomics

Larry Summers commenting in 1986 on real business cycle theory at https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr1043.pdf
Thomas Sowell – Conquests, Migrations, Race and Cultures
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, laws of war, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, racial discrimination
Population Control Isn’t the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is. #globalwarming #climateemergency @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens
25 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, technological progress, urban economics Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left







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