Why hasn’t economic progress lowered work hours more? Tyler Cowen, Hayek Lecture Series
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, population economics, property rights Tags: The Great Enrichment
Robert E. Lucas: The Wealth of Nations in the 21st Century
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Robert E. Lucas Tags: The Great Enrichment
Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: corporate law
Sowell on reparations
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: American Civil War, political correctness, regressive left

Woke @TheRACP erase Maori origins of Tohunga Suppression Act 1907 from parliamentary submission on Maori health disparities
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: Maori economic development, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, useful idiots

Woke @TheRACP condones quackery and faith healing. Will Maori homeopathy get the tick next?
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of religion, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: cranks, Maori economic development, political correctness, Quacks, regressive left, useful idiots

Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, offsetting behaviour, philosophy of science, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, useful idiots

Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Richard Posner 2008 interview on antitrust law
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, theory of the firm Tags: competition law
Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr.,
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution
An unsung hero in the war against terror
25 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: India, war against terror
Tesla’s Battery Supply Problem
25 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of crime, energy economics, growth disasters, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: child labour





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