David Friedman | Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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Freedom and Technology — David Friedman
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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The risks of doing business in 1990s Russia
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, fall of communism, transitional economies

Georgia?
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: doing business, The Great Enrichment

Jack Hirshleifer: economics in one page
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, marijuana decrimilization, rent control

Dierdre McCloskey: How Ideas can Change the World
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, law and economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment
Bruce Gilley – “The Case for Colonialism”
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, 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, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism, political correctness
Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: China, crony capitalism
Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit

Acemoglu and Robinson on the futility of foreign aid from Why Nations Fail
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ODA, The fatal conceit

Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, dating market, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage market

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




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