The Pioneer Probes Are Way Off-Course (and NASA doesn’t archive data)
03 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, Public Choice Tags: space
What Democrats Don’t Want You To Realize About @SenSanders Healthcare and Obamacare
03 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: health insurance
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of corruption
The Tullock Paradox. Why is the rent seeking industry so small?
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of corruption
Human progress and how we might blow it (Jonah Goldberg’s “Suicide of the West”)
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
Matthew Kahn on the mixed messages of mayors to the bond markets and the courts
29 Jul 2018 Leave a comment

More reasons for @jamespeshaw to come clean on cost of #globalwarming to NZ GDP
28 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism

How much of the 5.3% public service gender pay gap in 2015 was compensating differentials?
25 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, gender, politics - New Zealand
Indian Drivers and corruption
22 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: economics of corruption
Ten Minute History – The Russian Revolution
22 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
Feature History – Polish-Soviet War
21 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, International law, laws of war, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
Yes Minister — The Five Standard Excuses for government failures
16 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, television
Matthew Kahn on the mixed messages of mayors to the bond markets and the courts
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, securities fraud

Stigler explains how intellectuals and consultants ply their policy trade honestly
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, George Stigler, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: consultants, job sorting, public intellectuals



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