
Mankiw on wealth taxes
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Intersectionality comes back to bit itself. Black women don’t suffer from a second layer of discrimination, racial discrimination
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination

When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

Question for @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall

Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
Deplorables: Trump, Brexit and the Demonised Masses
24 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, Brexit, populism, regressive left
@TimurKuran: Persistent Authoritarianism in the Middle East and the Islamic Law
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
The Balance of Power: States, Societies, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty – James Robinson
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: rent seeking
Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism with Commentary by Paul Bjerk
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Cold War, economics of colonialism, World War II
Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences




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