The Invisible 310-Mile Barrier to a #Brexit Deal | @WSJ
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brexit, Ireland
What did millionaire @SenSanders build from scratch?
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: superstars, The Great Enrichment, top 1%

35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Why ‘Sign in With Apple’ Beats Passwords and Facebook | @WSJ
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction
Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, market efficiency, survivor principle, transport economics, war and peace Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism
Why So Many Airlines are Going Bankrupt
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: creative destruction
The labour theory of value @AOC @BernieSanders
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value

Biggest Dot-com Companies 1998 – 2019
06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM DOES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Sweden


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