The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
10 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
@AmnestyNZ complains despite frequent grant of asylum to uncooperative refugees on minimal information
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
Parliament staying its hand on a 2004 private member’s bill didn’t stop @NZHumanRights from amending the law! It stands as regent over our parliament, dealing out victories that cannot be won on the floor of Parliament through normal democratic means?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

More on @paulkrugman forgetting the literature on self-fulfilling financial crises and speculative attacks
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

This Unpleasant Royal Job Came with a Fancy Title
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking
“Us” isn’t inclusive! No room for the superiority of Western values: democracy is better, free speech is better, equality of the sexes is better.
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left

Patrick Michaels on modelling of #globalwarming
22 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, data mining, publication bias

How Were Medieval Taxes Collected?
22 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, public economics
More @MBIEgovtnz warnings of more homelessness under @JacindaArdern’s fairer tenancy laws
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Zilibotti on Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory






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