Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
01 May 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality | Conversations with Tyler
21 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: envy, top 1%
Handouts for the well to do of tommorow
10 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: College premium, education premium, regressive left

Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

Trade creation and trade diversion for NZ lamb imports into the UK
14 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: free trade agreements, preferential trade agreements, trade creation, trade diversion
Milton Friedman Why free markets work
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
Drowning in The Great Enrichment
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
18 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
Tom Ballard at 2018 Marxism conference
16 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, television
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: regressive left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings


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