Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Dr. Ross McKitrick
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 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 education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism
James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, British empire, economics of colonialism
@paulkrugman on @ProfSteveKeen’s inability to get even the basics of macroeconomics right but @NZTreasury invited him over anyway
04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit
Question for @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall
Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
Richard Posner: Fiscal Irresponsibility Clouds the Future
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: bank panics
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