
What should be in free trade agreements?
07 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: customs unions, preferential trade agreements
David Card: The Economics of Immigration
29 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic history, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: economics of immigration
The long-term effects of capital gains taxes
19 Nov 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, income redistribution, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: capital gains tax, housing affordability, land supply, taxation and investment
Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Thatcher’s Last Stand Against Socialism
07 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony | Freedom Summer
02 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Economics of the City, Edward Glaeser
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics
Sowell on reparations
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: American Civil War, political correctness, regressive left

Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, offsetting behaviour, philosophy of science, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, useful idiots

Robert E. Lucas Jr. What was the industrial revolution
23 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution





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