Boris Johnson’s funny Love Actually parody | final election broadcast
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in international economics, movies, Public Choice, television Tags: Brexit
IEA shows world’s current policies tracking well below the median IPCC no climate policy scenario since 2012!
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A fair enough first milestone
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in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, law and economics Tags: Age of Enlightenment, political correctness, regressive left
Obama Buys $11m Beachside Property–Sea Level Rise? You Did Believe That Bull Did You?
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Steven N. S. Cheung on the theory of the firm
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in comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm
The Hungarian Romanian War & The Downfall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic I THE GREAT WAR 1919
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in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Another gender gap that dare not speak its name
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in health economics Tags: economics of addiction, gender gap
Friedman (1984) on the Volcker experiment
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in business cycles, economic history, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Profile of urban economist Edward Glesar
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IMF F&D (Dec-2019 edition) profiles Ed Glaesar of Harvard Univ:
Growing up in New York City in the 1970s, Edward Glaeser saw a great metropolis in decline. Crime was soaring. Garbage piled up on sidewalks as striking sanitation workers walked off the job. The city teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.
By the mid-1980s, it was clear that New York would bounce back. But it could still be a scary place; there was a triple homicide across the street from his school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Glaeser was nevertheless captivated by New York’s bustling street life and spent hours roaming its neighborhoods.
“It was both wonderful and terrifying, and it was hard not to be obsessed by it,” Glaeser recalls in an interview at his office at Harvard University.
Today, that sense of wonder still permeates Glaeser’s work as an urban economist. He deploys the economist’s…
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
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