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
Few wish to #feelthebern in their hip-pocket @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars
Free to Grow | John H. Cochrane
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking
Brexit DAY!
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice Tags: Brexit
Finn Kydland on economic policy
22 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Edward Prescott, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, inflation targeting, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas Tags: game theory, real business cycle theory


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