
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

Every billionaire is a failure says @AOC
31 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, top 1%

Wealth taxes debate
17 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, wealth taxes
Jason Brennan and Larry Temkin on Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: capitalism and freedom
Bryan Caplan on Marxism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle
The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable: A Tale of Extraordinary Perseverance
26 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Hayek and Pandemic Response with Professor Mark Pennington
23 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
HT Cafe Hayek
Lockdowns Hit Minority Businesses
15 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, health economics, industrial organisation, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
Steve Davis on #COVID19 as a reallocation shock
11 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, economics of pandemics
Global Pricing of Pharmaceutical Products: Richard Epstein on the Ethics of Global Health
04 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: drug pricing, patents and copyright
.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences





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