Why megaproject cost overruns?
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: regressive left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings
Debating Income Inequality: What’s the Problem? What’s the Solution?
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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How Markets Work | Russ Roberts (2021)
04 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, survivor principle
The Economics of Inequality | John Cochrane
30 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
The 2012 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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Economic Growth in the Long Run: Artificial Intelligence Explosion or an Empty Planet? Ben Jones & Chad Jones
27 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, economics of fertility, endogenous growth theory
Re-Absorbing East Germany After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
25 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, 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, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, war and peace Tags: Berlin wall, East Germany, fall of communism, Nazi Germany, World War II
Creative destruction
18 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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#OTD another forgotten natural monopoly
12 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, natural monopoly, network economics
Terry Anderson on Native American Economics 12/19/2016
07 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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