
The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Cold War, economics of colonialism, World War II
The Sino Soviet Split: Explained
16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economics, International law, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: China, fall of communism
Pepperdine Law Review Symposium: Richard Posner
16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner
Weitzman on the fragile basis of the Stern review
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

Idiot Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace
A note for anti-science left especially given its embrace of climate science denial. Previously hollowed consensus isn’t pessimistic enough to justify the Green New Deal
13 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Anti-Science left, climate alarmism, pessimism bias

Timur Kuran on “The Portal”, “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception.”
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: preference falsification
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism

Lessons from Africa
04 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption, economics of colonialism, ODA
Usage Share of Internet Browsers 1996 – 2019. I am sure @NZComCom was convinced Netscape had a monopoly
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: competition law, creative destruction, The fatal conceit




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