Milton Friedman – Economic Transition in Eastern Europe – George Shultz, George Stigler
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, George Stigler, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Stephen Kotkin, “Stalin: Volume I”
06 May 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen | Michael Walzer (1968) Dissent Magazine
03 May 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Myth of the Rational Voter
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, regressive left
What happens if your local WINZ stops monitoring job search?
28 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, unemployment, welfare reform
Paul W. McCracken, former member and later chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Dr. Ioannidis on Why We Don’t Have Reliable Data Surrounding COVID-19
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: action bias, economics of pandemics, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit
Robert D. Tollison laments the bureaucratic reluctance “to apply…even simple price theory”
25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Oops, Ministry concludes NZ didn’t need to close schools because of #COVID19 infection risks!!?
22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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From https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/covid-19_control_measures_to_deliver_covid-19_strategies_education_sector_evidence_review-21apr20.pdf and https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12326496
A Conversation with Harold Demsetz
22 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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