The Man Who Made Hong Kong
14 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, Hong Kong
Amazon 1st made a profit in 2006
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

The shape of things to come if #COVID19 subsidies persist?
05 May 2020 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, health economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle
It had to be a pub in Ireland
03 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle

Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Richard Epstein on Cruises, First-Class Travel, and Inequality 6/27/2016
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, industrial organisation, law and economics, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, theory of the firm
Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
A Conversation with Harold Demsetz
22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, George Stigler, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, resource economics, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape
Alfred Marshall on state ownership
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, state ownership, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Eamonn Butler on the knowledge problem
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence of knowledge, unintended consequences
Coronavirus: Do socialists understand socialism?
29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics



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