
Excellent example of a random productivity shock behind real business cycles
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Jack Hirshleifer: economics in one page
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, marijuana decrimilization, rent control

Bruce Gilley – “The Case for Colonialism”
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism, political correctness
Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: China, crony capitalism
Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit

Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, dating market, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage market

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
David Bernstein on the hollow hope that antidiscrimination laws lead social progress
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
Acemoglu and Robinson on the geography hypothesis
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: endogenous growth theory





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