Why Colombia is losing the cocaine war
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: war on drugs
Yet another gender gap
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

Progressive muslim Met a Former Muslim Extremist. It Scared him How Much His Story Sounded Like his own.
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: war against terror
Jonathan Pie’s On Cultural Appropriation
18 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness
Why the #MeToo Moment Is Especially Distressing for Muslim Women (progressive Muslim discovers there is ‘no superior virtue of the oppressed’ even in a conservative religion full of taboos)
17 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness
Note to a jetlagged @jamespeshaw from William Nordhous
16 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, free riding, game theory

Why It’s Illegal to Resign from the British House of Commons
15 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: British parliament
Thomas Sowell on The Limits of Discrimination
11 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination
The role of greater equality in post-war economic growth (a one-time growth spurt from less misallocation of talent?)
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality Tags: endogenous growth theory, gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

A Conversation With David Friedman – part 1: Chaos, Anarchy, Capitalism, and Anarcho-capitalism
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in David Friedman, law and economics
Pirates & the Theory of the Firm – Intro to Political Economy, Lecture17 Mike Munger
10 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: asymmetric information, moral hazard, transaction costs
Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, Roman empire, Thomas Sowell
What makes countries rich or poor?
09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape

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