
Gibbeting (Horrible Punishments in History)
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: death penalty
A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption

Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit

Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice
How Crazed Parents Scammed Their Kids Into College
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics
The Invisible 310-Mile Barrier to a #Brexit Deal | @WSJ
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brexit, Ireland
Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Peter Singer on free speech and the denial of the Holocaust that murdered three of his grandparents
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech, The Holocaust

Camille Paglia would have a lot to say to Harvey Weinstein
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, movies Tags: sexual harassment
Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 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, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism






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