Trade wars, explained
07 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, industrial organisation, international economic law, labour economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: protectionism, strategic trade theory
A Conversation with Gary Becker: The Future of US Economic Policy
06 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, Gary Becker, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA
The Great Enrichment
03 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact

Mark Pennington on The Influence of Coase on Economic Policy – The Next 50 Years
02 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase
Why Should My Boss Get All the Profits?
01 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, labour theory of value
The Influence of Coase On Economic Policy – The Next 50 Years
31 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (Tom Wainwright)
29 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of crime, industrial organisation, law and economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: drug cartels, drug trafficking, organised crime
Net neutrality explained in the spirit of Schumpeter
26 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: antitrust economics, competition law, creative destruction

How Don Lavoie Changed the Debate about Socialism and Central Planning
12 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, property rights Tags: economics of central planning
George Stigler doesn’t think much of the influence over economists over public policy
11 May 2018 Leave a comment

CofC Adam Smith Week 2018 – Dr. Lynne Kiesling
09 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation
I am now a @DomPost hack as well as a @NZHerald hack according to some of @Whaleoil’s commentariat?!
04 May 2018 Leave a comment
in administration, energy economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand


From https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/05/whaleoil-general-debate-1411/
As Ronald Coase said in 1972
One important result of this preoccupation with the monopoly problem is that if an economist finds something—a business practice of one sort or other—that he çloes not understand, he looks for a monopoly explanation. And as in this field we are very ignorant, the number of ununderstandable practices tends to be rather large, and the reliance on a monopoly explanation, frequent.



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