
What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Energy project cost overruns
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice Tags: megaprojects

The Danes are awash in data. Shed a tear for your own job security if there is a death in the CEO’s family.
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption

Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
12 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, moral hazard
Pay transparency strengthens the bargaining hands of employers @NZHumanRights
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand
Harold Demsetz on the risks of merging to enhance market power. Corporate reorganizations often fail.
28 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: competition law






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