
.@ProfDBernstein on Posner on racial discrimination by minority businesses in hiring
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: affirmative action, job search, labour market search, racial discrimination

Sinclair Davidson on privatisation
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: /, privatisation
George Stigler on marginal cost
31 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, George Stigler, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, survivor principle

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







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