Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It Bent Flyvbjerg

25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Tullock Lecture: Deirdre McCloskey

22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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TV: A Forgotten History

21 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Harold Demsetz interview

19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Steven Pinker/Peterson: What Social Justice got Totally Wrong

13 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Matthew E. Kahn “Unlocking the Potential of Post Industrial Cities”

08 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, property rights, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics

Ronald Coase on JS Mill’s false doctrine of “natural monopoly”

02 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Luke Froeb The One Lesson of Business

26 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

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Will We Have a New Supersonic Jet Soon? – Boom SuperSonic

13 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

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A Quarter Century of ‘The Proper Scope of Government’: Theory and Applications | Oliver Hart

09 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics

How do you align the incentives of sea captains transporting criminals to Australia with those of the public?

06 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

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From https://managerialecon.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-do-you-align-incentives-of-sea.html?m=1

Brainstorms and Mindfarts: The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American History

02 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

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A Scandinavian U.S. Would Be a Problem for the Global Economy

01 Jun 2021 3 Comments

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From https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/20/can-the-us-become-denmark/a-scandinavian-us-would-be-a-problem-for-the-global-economy

Top 15 Biggest Companies by Market Capitalization 1993 – 2019

29 May 2021 Leave a comment

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Watch The Most Popular Websites Since 1993

28 Mar 2021 Leave a comment

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