
.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Is inflation always and everywhere a fiscal phenomenon – from John Cochrane’s draft book
30 May 2020 Leave a comment

The moral roots of liberals and conservatives – Jonathan Haidt
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political psychology
Unemployment rate in Georgia is 40%
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: 2020 presidential election, economics of pandemics, moral hazard, unemployment insurance

Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia?
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Malaysia, racial discrimination, Singapore
Neoliberalism made everything worse for the last 40 years?! @AOC @SenSanders @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @greenpeaceusa @jeremycorbyn
24 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: capitalism and freedom, pessimism bias, regressive left

Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 2 – The Tyranny of Control
22 May 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, television Tags: capitalism and freedom, India, Japan
The staggering cost of NIMBYISM
18 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning

David Friedman on opposition to foreign investment
13 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, income redistribution, international economics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking
Robert Lucas on wealth taxes
07 May 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, Robert E. Lucas
Myth of the Rational Voter
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, regressive left
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape


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