Creative destruction in landlines
29 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Bell Labs – The Company that Invented the Future
21 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
I Annoyed a mercantilist
06 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: free trade, free trade agreements, tariffs
Socialism vs. Capitalism: A Debate
20 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Cost Over-Runs in Infrastructure Projects
13 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Surprise result in these #COVID19 times
18 May 2022 Leave a comment
in health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
01 May 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
If skilled labour is being kept out of the workplace for unreasonable reasons then that’s an opportunity for someone else to gain that labour on the cheap. Which is exactly what Dame Steve Shirley did
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, unintended consequences
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order
Addressing economic disparity challenges in NZ
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Top 10 Largest Companies by Market Cap (1979-2021)
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Milton Friedman Why free markets work
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
Why megaproject cost overruns?
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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