
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

Southern American Territorial Disputes
20 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of borders, maps
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
From Modeling Monetary Economies Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman, Joseph Haslag
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment


The 2012 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, superstars, top 1%
A Peace Treaty That Sparked A Civil War – The Anglo-Irish Treaty I THE GREAT WAR 1921
28 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, international economics, law and economics, laws of war, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Ireland, World War I
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
The Fiscal and monetary response to Covid-19: what the Great Depression has (and hasn’t) taught us George Selgin
13 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, great depression, health economics, history of economic thought, international economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
The reduced supply of safe assets
07 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics Tags: monetary policy


The importance of not having dumb policy regimes
06 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, labour economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment

I usually stop reading at the first mention of the @UN
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, top 1%

Edward Glaeser on Survival of the City
01 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics
What was the industrial revolution?
28 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: economics of fertility, industrial revolution, The Great Enrichment
DAVID FRIEDMAN – Anarchy Online: A World of Strong Privacy
24 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of regulation, international economics, law and economics, property rights

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