Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: , , , ,

From https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/322836?seq=1

Richard Posner 2008 interview on antitrust law

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Rare Economic Disasters: What Role Does Government Play? | Robert Barro

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment

Robert E. Lucas Jr. What was the industrial revolution

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The Classical Liberal Constitution

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags:

#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @BernieSanders

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Scalia: Rule of law as a law of rules

14 Oct 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

From https://cyber.harvard.edu/bridge/Philosophy/rollor.txt.htm

John Gibson Gibson lockdown costs Plan B weekly webinar – 12/10/2020

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags:

Another reason to abolish Medsafe. Months lost duplicting far better resourced overseas drug safety agencies #COVID19

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: ,

Religious Liberty Symposium Keynote | Richard Epstein

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Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono

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Kate Andrews on the Gender Pay Gap, Feminism, Socialism & the NHS

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

Unclear if Draconian Measures Saved Lives — John P.A. Ioannidis

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by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: , , , ,

Socialism Does NOT Work | Daniel Hannan | Oxford Union

05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, P.T. Bauer, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: ,

What should public service economists do?

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

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