
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
Lee Ohanian on crisis management
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

Brad DeLong quote to be read out to leftists who complains about WINZ or any other bureaucracy
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand
My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
@NZComCom’s petrol pricing report is an ode to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm of decades and decades gone by
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law








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