Top 15 Biggest Companies by Market Capitalization 1993 – 2019; No Apple until 2009, no Facebook or Amazon until 2015!
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Did @NZComCom fret about hotmail’s monopoly power?
16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction
Order without intent: How spontaneous order built our world
16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, industrial organisation, law and economics, survivor principle Tags: spontaneous order
Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
12 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, moral hazard
More monopolies for @NZComCom to fret over: Best-Selling Mobile Phone Makers 1992 – 2018
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: competition law
Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, protectionism, tariffs and quotas, trade wars
Biggest Fast Food Chains in the World 1970 – 2019: creative destruction explained for benefit of @NZComCom
05 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Lessons from Africa
04 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption, economics of colonialism, ODA
Usage Share of Internet Browsers 1996 – 2019. I am sure @NZComCom was convinced Netscape had a monopoly
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, The fatal conceit
Edward Prescott on the benefits of the common market
01 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, industrial organisation, international economic law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: Common market, customs unions, preferential trade agreements

Harold Demsetz on the risks of merging to enhance market power. Corporate reorganizations often fail.
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law





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