Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth

27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags:

Gordon Tullock on the purpose of government

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Lee Ohanian on crisis management

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

17 of the 100 biggest grossing films were filmed in Georgia in 2016

25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, movies, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags:

Posner and Epstein Debate the Patent System 2012

25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags:

Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages

25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: ,

The Chinese and Russian transitions explained

24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , ,

Daron Acemoglu: Robots and Jobs

24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: ,

My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition

23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice

Paywalled at https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12260923

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: , ,

Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: , ,

After only 227 pages does @NZComCom reveal its criteria for markets predisposed to collusion

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: , ,

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

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags:

@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

by Jim Rose in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags:

@NZComCom sees this price discounting as evidence of a stable cartel or tight oligopoly

21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand Tags: ,

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