
Too stoned or drunk to turn around from long queue of cars at border?
13 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, transport economics Tags: crime and punishment, economics of pandemics, law and order

Jason Brennan and Larry Temkin on Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: capitalism and freedom
Bryan Caplan on Marxism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle
The Abandoned Hill With Two Members Of Parliament
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: British history, British politics
Gender socially constructed; parents can’t make kids say please, thank you despite 24/7 access for 20 years
11 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioral genetics, child psychology, evolutionary psychology, personality psychology
Did France and Britain Almost Unite into the Franco-British Union?
09 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: World War II
Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
07 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, unintended consequences

WOKE Utopia
06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
06 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: American Civil War, political correctness, regressive left

Cancel culture’s worst nightmare
05 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, pessimism bias, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left




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