How Harsh was the Treaty of Versailles Really?
14 Apr 2020 2 Comments
in defence economics, economic history, international economics, International law, war and peace
A reopening of the Trans-Tasman border would help the tourist industry #COVID19
12 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics

What Are The World’s Oldest Borders?
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in international economic law, international economics, International law Tags: economics of borders, maps
Milton Friedman never liked the IMF
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetary economics
Paola Sapienza – Does culture affect economic outcomes?
10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration
Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

42% of asylum seekers choose to go home
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration
#climateemergency #globalwarming anti-science @GreenpeaceUK @TheGreenParty
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, international economics, Public Choice, transport economics Tags: virtue signaling

Caballero on the great safe collateral contraction
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, monetary policy, moral hazard, self-selection, sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
When Did Passports Become a Thing?
13 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, public economics Tags: economics of borders
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
10 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality



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