
More on economists didn’t write on poverty and inequality prior to Piketty
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty

Is it just me but are most of these heterodox economists unknown or not economists? Keynes and Piketty pump up the numbers.
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought Tags: cranks

After only 227 pages does @NZComCom reveal its criteria for markets predisposed to collusion
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cartel theory, competition law, oligopoly

The old hippies at @NZComCom force Harold Demsetz turn in his grave by using profits to assess competition. So 1960s. Died after his 1973 paper.
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law

@NZComCom’s petrol pricing report is an ode to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm of decades and decades gone by
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law

David Levine on @paulkrugman forgetting his own paper on financial crises despite rational expectations and efficient markets
15 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Mankiw (2006) on Keynes still ruling at central banks
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, history of economic thought, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetary policy

James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy







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