David Friedman – Market Failure: An Argument both for and Against Government
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: government failure, market failure
Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
The Classical Liberal Constitution
19 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: constitutional law
More blasphemy
18 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @BernieSanders
18 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: The fatal conceit

What drives the gender commuting gap?
16 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: gender wage gap

Future directions of research in the Coasean tradition: Sam Peltzman
16 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, George Stigler, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Sam Peltzman, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Blasphemy will soon be illegal again in NZ
15 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Blasphemy, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Epstein doesn’t mention the biggest sex difference of all: soldiers must have the aggression to kill with their bare hands in one-on-one fights to the death
15 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, gender, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: sex discrimination

Richard Posner (1992) on feminists
14 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Richard Posner Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination


Scalia: Rule of law as a law of rules
14 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law
Pessimism bias and crime
13 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: law and order, pessimism bias

John Gibson Gibson lockdown costs Plan B weekly webinar – 12/10/2020
13 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
Heather Mac Donald And Glenn Loury On Policing, Race, And Ideological Conformity
12 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
.@AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
12 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment


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