The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, survivor principle Tags: China
Did @NZComCom freet about Netscape’s natural monopoly?
08 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
INCU Global Conference 2014 – Thomas J. Sargent – Keynote Address on the effects of opening borders
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, unemployment Tags: custom unions, free trade, tariffs
Hazeldine and Rashbrooke on the Kiwi working rich
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, superstars, top 1%
#COVID19 reallocation shock #OTD
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health and safety, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatal conceit
Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
Spot the government owned business @AOC @BernieSanders
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Thomas Sowell – Wealth Disparity
14 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, pessimism bias
Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, & Scientific Progress | Conversations with Tyler
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle
Younger people won’t recognize the names of these winner take all, enduring natural monopolies
04 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit
Yet another reason why legal cannabis shops will not out-compete the gangs @NZDrug! Out of the way locations
01 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: anti-market bias, marijuana decrimilization, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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