Hollywood Stars In Communist Activities (1947)
29 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, movies, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism
Does the Paris climate treaty require anyone to do anything?
29 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmism

From Nations Approve Landmark Climate Accord in Paris https://nyti.ms/21X15IW
Robert Lucas on the utopianism of most economic advisors
23 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, Public Choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: The pretence to knowledge

The public choice theory of LBJ in a nutshell
22 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: LBJ

The Population Bomb? | Retro Report | @nytimes @EricCrampton @_jamiewhyte
19 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, population economics, Public Choice, urban economics Tags: ageing society, baby bust, child mortality, population bomb, The Great Escape
Is Auckland Action Against Poverty secretly neoliberal on housing habitability laws? @_AAAP_
16 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, unintended consequences

Richard Posner – WikiLeaks as a net plus to American foreign policy
15 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: espionage, law and order
Writing to @CarmelSepuloni to confirm whether this is true
14 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice


Alastair Smith – The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
12 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Hamas: By the Numbers
10 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, International law, laws of war, Public Choice, rentseeking, Uncategorized, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, regressive left
Last economist leaving @NZTreasury did turn out the lights; didn’t click to the American Question: if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?
07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, financial economics, personnel economics

Source: From Treasury email
From The Limits of Expertise: If you’re So Smart, Why ain’t You Rich? – SFU by Deirdre McCloskey.
Bruce Caldwell – The Road to Serfdom
07 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of central planning
My @NZHerald op-ed: unilateral climate action isn’t the next best thing @jamespeshaw
06 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, game theory
Nancy MacLean: The GOP’s Long Game |also #OTD 3rd US libertarian elected (a town mayor)
05 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: conspiracy theories, regressive left
James Buchanan couldn’t lead a political revolution because he was such a dry writer and boring speaker.


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