Bouncing Back: The Role of Social Safety Nets
03 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: poverty traps
I usually stop reading at the first mention of the @UN
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, top 1%
A Million Mutinies: The key to economic development |Robert Lucas 2001
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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Edward Glaeser on Survival of the City
01 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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The High Cost of Good Intentions with John F. Cogan: Perspectives on Policy
31 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: taxation and labour supply
Ed Glaeser doesn’t hold back
28 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: green rentseeking, NIMBY
Daron Acemoglu on How Inequality Weakens Nations
26 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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Lee Ohanian on Sweden’s Experiment with Socialism
26 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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When will #COVID19 job support cross into the zombie quagmire?
25 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, Japan, unintended consequences
Minimum wages kill opportunity
25 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
17 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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Essential Nozick: Income inequality and the role of choice
13 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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