James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google

08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”

06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Oscar Wilde on the @DemSocialists of America #DSACon19

05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, politics - USA

Life as a North Korean Elite | Former Ambassador Thae Yong-ho | China Uncensored

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Scott Freeman on monetary stabilisation

29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Thomas Sowell on losing his religion

28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Murray Rothbard on who gains from statistics

28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation

From https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/The%20Rothbard%20Reader.pdf

Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap

28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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@NZComCom has a very 1960s view of competition and new entry too

28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags:

Sam Peltzman asks how many people @US_FDA @minhealthnz #medsafe killed today?

27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

From http://www.aei.org/publication/regulation-and-the-natural-progress-of-opulence-2/

Scott Freeman and Bruce Champ on deposit insurance and moral hazard

25 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Democracy in action is about access and influence

24 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Amazon v. France

23 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Marxism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism – Bryan Caplan

20 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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Richard Epstein on Rand Paul’s Wrong Answer on civil rihhts

20 Jul 2019 Leave a comment

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From https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/24/rand-paul-rachel-maddow-opinions-columnists-richard-a-epstein.html

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