Why was Churchill voted out of office after WW2?
31 May 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, income redistribution, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: British history, British politics, World War II
Why did England restore its Monarchy after its Civil War?
11 May 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of religion, Public Choice Tags: British history
A fact-checked debate about legal weed
08 Mar 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of prohibition, marijuana decriminalization
Future of Freedom debate 1977 — David Friedman v. Tom Hayden
15 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom
Palestine, Poverty, and Neoliberalism
01 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Middle-East politics
I came to know Luigi Achilli through his work on human smuggling, but he also spent a year living in a Palestinian refugee camp. What did he learn there? 644 more words
Palestine, Poverty, and Neoliberalism
Reflections on Japan
19 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: Japan

Simon and I had a fantastic journey through Japan, or at least the east coast of Honshu. We started in Tokyo, then took bullet trains to Hiroshima, Himeji, Kyoto, and Mount Fuji before heading home. 1,504 more words
Reflections on Japan
How to expel an MP from Parliament: The ejection of John Wilkes in 1764
15 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice Tags: British constitutional law, British history, constitutional law

John Wilkes is one of the more scandalous figures in the 18th-century. His publication of North Briton Number 45, and Essay on Woman, had both the Commons and the Lords denounce him. Parliament began to build a case against Wilkes. Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our House of Lords 1715-1790 project, reflects on how Parliament […]
How to expel an MP from Parliament: The ejection of John Wilkes in 1764
Richard Posner – WikiLeaks and the First Amendment
07 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech
Milton Friedman on Donahue #2
03 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment
Uncancelled History | EP. 02 Colonialism
26 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, International law, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, economics of colonialism
WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM DOES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
24 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Sweden
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