To Beat the Trade War, Companies Get Creative Breaking the Rules @WSJ
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in international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: free trade, protectionism
What Did Peasants Eat in Medieval Times?
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in economic history, economics of media and culture
Alan Dershowitz – The Case Against Impeaching Trump
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA
Casey Mulligan on the lump of labour fallacy
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in economic history, gender, labour supply, unemployment
Canada is a case study in screwing up marijuana legalisation @nzdrug @familyfirstnz
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in economics of crime, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand
.@nzdrug comes clean at last about its #fakenews that 870 go to prison for low-level drug offences @familyfirstnz
16 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand
Paul Romer: The view from economic history
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by Nuno Palma (University of Manchester and CEPR). Republished with minor adjustments from the blog “Economic Growth in History”
In this post I write about the connections between Paul Romer’s work, which is essentially applied theory, and the empirical work on long-run economic growth done by economic historians. How was Romer influenced by the work of economic historians? has he influenced economic history? and have his theories been confirmed by the recent work of economic historians? (preview: I will argue that the answers are: yes; not much; and no). Nevertheless, my point above is not that Romer is wrong in general; in fact some of his ideas *about ideas* are fundamental for us to think about growth in the past (read on if this isn’t clear yet.)
Paul Romer in 2005. Wikimedia Commons
Paul Romer’s was a well-deserved and long-anticipated prize. Many predicted he would eventually win, including myself in my very…
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Free Market Environmentalism with Terry Anderson: Perspectives on Policy
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in environmental economics Tags: recycling
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