.@MBIEgovtnz warns of more homelessness from fairer tenancy reforms by @jacindaardern
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Innovation and Growth Cycles David Levine
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
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Life behind the Berlin Wall | The Economist
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Berlin, fall of communism, Germany
P.T. Bauer (1959) on planning a big push out of Indian poverty
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of planning, economics of socialism, India, The fatal conceit
The Tyranny of Experts
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom
SNL destroys @SenWarren’s Medicare-for-all
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax
Which billionaires will the @BernieSanders @SenWarren wealth tax abolish?
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, envy, superstars, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax
Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, endogenous growth theory, envy, superstars, top 1%, wealth taxes
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
Do bosses take your labour surplus with them when they die? More on the rise of a working rich @AOC @BernieSanders
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value, top 1%
from http://www.ericzwick.com/capitalists/capitalists.pdf
Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,
@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Douglass North and Timur Kuran: Institutions and Economic Performance
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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