Sweden: Lessons for America? – Full Video
13 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: Sweden
Predicting the GFC, Karl Popper & the lure of prophecy
01 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in financial economics, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Marxist economics
From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/ and https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=zXh9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA455&dq=karl+popper+Conjectures+Refutations+%22the+dream+of+prophecy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiczvqg3uPdAhVDQd4KHRD8CPQQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=karl%20popper%20Conjectures%20Refutations%20%22the%20dream%20of%20prophecy%22&f=false
How much of a crank is @profstevekeen?
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, macroeconomics
From http://chrisauld.com/2012/12/06/steve-keen-still-butchering-basic-microeconomics/ at http://chrisauld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/stern-debunking-review.pdf
Maybe trigger warnings have their place
19 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought Tags: fall of communism
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz vs. NYU’s William Easterly
15 Sep 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought Tags: The Great Enrichment, William easterly
Would Socialism Better Our Lives?
03 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: fall of communism, kibbutzim
Would Socialism Better Our Lives? https://nyti.ms/2MFC2v8
Robert Lucas on the utopianism of most economic advisors
23 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, Public Choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: The pretence to knowledge
More from the Blank Slate on the anti-science left
21 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, health economics, history of economic thought, law and economics Tags: Anti-Science left, IQ
Unusual to know exactly who was last to learn of a massive literature! @moturesearch @coughlthom
17 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of love and marriage, gender, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand
From Lucas and Sargent’s After Keynesian Macroeconomics 1979
15 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: conjecture and refutation, Keynesian macroeconomics, stagflation, Thomas Sargent
The Queen didn’t ask Keynesians about not predicting the 1970s stagflation, a phenomenon their macroeconomics strictly forbade
15 Aug 2018 2 Comments
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: conjecture and refutation, Keynesian macroeconomics, stagflation
Source: Kehoe, Midrigan and Pastorino 2018.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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