
Thomas Sowell on losing his religion
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit

Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law

News driven business cycles have a lot of merit
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economics of information, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle Tags: real business cycles

Carlton and Peltzman on who founded the modern theory of competition and oligopoly
20 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd
19 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, Milton Friedman, politics - USA Tags: fall of communism, special interests
On the practical irrelevance of moral philosophers (activists and even feminists) to social reform
18 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

Williamson and Wright on sticky prices making sense
18 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of information, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, Thomas M. Humphrey Tags: New Keynesian macroeconomics, sticky prices

George Stigler on the contribution of monopsonistic competition
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, George Stigler, history of economic thought, industrial organisation

From George Stigler Five Lectures in Economic Problems 1949.





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