
“Economic Policy and Growth of Nation” – by Prof. Finn Kydland
24 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
Freeman and Champ explain the Lucas revolution
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment

Tutino and Zarazaga on why the fiscal theory of the price level is so compelling! Quantity theory struggles to explain the sudden end of hyperinflations and the failure of previous stabilisation attempts
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

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

How did Churchill lose the 1945 general election?
30 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, income redistribution, labour economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, unemployment, war and peace Tags: British history, World War II
Ed Prescott Says ‘Partial’ Default Is Likely for Greece
22 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
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
Why did @NZprocom not cite world’s top immigration economist?
08 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: economics of immigration








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