
What did millionaire @SenSanders build from scratch?
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: superstars, The Great Enrichment, top 1%

35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, market efficiency, survivor principle, transport economics, war and peace Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Why So Many Airlines are Going Bankrupt
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: creative destruction
The labour theory of value @AOC @BernieSanders
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value

Biggest Dot-com Companies 1998 – 2019
06 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
The Last Video Store
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
Creative Destruction: Technology and Trade
24 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
“Most Popular Mobile Phone Brands 1993 – 2019” Apple didn’t appear until late 2009
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law, mobile phones
Akerlof’s lemons paper showed how markets profited from overcoming asymmetric information
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: asymmetric information

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