The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 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, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Should a teenager this fragile be making any big decisions before their mind is in a better place?
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: evonomics of mental illness

Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
Executive Power & the Louisiana Purchase
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in economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Safe 3rd country placement is as old as international refugee law
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law Tags: do gooders

David Bernstein on the hollow hope that antidiscrimination laws lead social progress
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Japanese traffic accident law is so simple that you don’t need a lawyer
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, Richard Epstein

From Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law By J. Mark Ramseyer
The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
Can Cities Sue Oil Companies for Climate Change? [POLICYbrief]
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nuisance suits
Acemoglu and Robinson on the geography hypothesis
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: endogenous growth theory

Daron Acemoğlu: “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: autocracy
Japanese courts must be as boring as Richard Epstein wanted in a good legal system
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, Richard Epstein

From Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law By J. Mark Ramseyer



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