Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Why Swedes Vote for Populists

20 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, law and economics, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: , ,

Glenn Loury and Thomas Leonard (Illiberal Refomers)

19 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

How Zoning Laws Are Holding Back America’s Cities

15 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: ,

Thomas Piketty finally made a positive contribution to public policy debates

06 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, poverty and inequality, Public Choice

From http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf

Democratic Socialism is a Scam

10 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags:

https://quillette.com/2018/08/06/democratic-socialism-is-a-scam/

“You’re all a bunch of socialists” Mises on Friedman

08 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, F.A. Hayek, income redistribution, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics Tags: ,

Johan Norberg – Swedish Myths and Realities

08 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle, welfare reform Tags:

Uber and the Great Taxicab Collapse

12 May 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: ,

George Stigler doesn’t think much of the influence over economists over public policy

11 May 2018 Leave a comment

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Is not Peter Singer making the case for the Berlin Wall to stop flight from a worker’s paradise

19 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, income redistribution, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick

From http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/03/06/the-right-to-be-rich-or-poor/ 1975 review of Anarchy, State and Utopia.

Jonathan Chait is spot on. Left believes they lose because the system is rigged and voters are duped. It is never that their ideas just don’t fly.

09 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: , , , ,

Are @JeremyCorbyn Deirdre McCloskey and even John Rawls on the same page on The Great Enrichment?

03 Apr 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, income redistribution, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: , , , , ,

Nice summary

02 Apr 2018 1 Comment

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Down and out on the US welfare safety net

26 Mar 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: ,

DESTROY, DO NOT WOUND | The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

12 Mar 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

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