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
.@RossMcKitrick on economics and politics of #globalwarming #climateemergency @mfe_news @NZGreens @jamespeshaw
18 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, international economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: carbon tax, climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
David Friedman at Libertopia 2010 on Future Imperfect
08 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights
Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: fall of communism
How would @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greenpeace @oxfamnz @jeremycorbyn @amnestynz @Greens @NZGreens have answered?
01 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
Hershleifer on postive economics
30 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, market efficiency, Public Choice, survivor principle
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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