What happens when welfare benefits increase?
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: social insurance
David Levine on the impossibility of predicting the timing of a crisis
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: efficient markets hypothesis
Can Jeremy Corbyn Become PM without a General Election?
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
The fixed term parliament act is badly drafted
By Colin Talbot
Everyone expects a Vote of No Confidence (VONC) in the Boris Johnson when Parliament resumes in the autumn. Exactly when remains an issue of some doubt, and whether or not it would pass is anyone’s guess.
That has not stopped rampant speculation and heated debate about what happens if and when the VONC passes.
Prominent in this kerfuffle has been the idea put forward by Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters – especially John McDonnell – that Corbyn could simply take over. He has famously said he would “send Jeremy to Palace in a taxi and tell the Queen that we are taking over.” How credible is this?
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Why Can’t Adults Learn Languages Like Children?
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein’s fascinating talk
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Dierdre McCloskey: How Ideas can Change the World
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, law and economics Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment
The downside of #endoil
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: The fatal conceit
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
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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
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