Economics of the City, Edward Glaeser

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics

Tesla battery manufacture/R&D should be state owned. Put renewable energy battery backup innovation back by decades @Greens

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The Prince | Machiavelli

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, Public Choice

Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders

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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

26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment

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

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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

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

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Religious Liberty Symposium Keynote | Richard Epstein

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Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono

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