Liberal Economists Score an Own Goal Against Bezos

25 May 2026 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, fiscal policy, James Buchanan, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics

Jeff Bezos tweeted: Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but…

Liberal Economists Score an Own Goal Against Bezos

What does it cost to vote your conscience? Geoffrey Brennan

04 Aug 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, Gordon Tullock, James Buchanan, Public Choice Tags:

What is Public Choice Theory? Geoffrey Brennan

03 Aug 2022 Leave a comment

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Hayek on Hayek on Rawls

10 May 2022 Leave a comment

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Socialism Does NOT Work | Daniel Hannan | Oxford Union

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, P.T. Bauer, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: ,

What should public service economists do?

05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

Good summary

25 Jun 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, Robert E. Lucas, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm

James Buchanan on economic advisors as establishment intellectuals

21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, James Buchanan, Public Choice

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

James Buchanan on highly undemocratic Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

19 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, constitutional political economy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, Public Choice

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=92xzxQEACAAJ&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture

24 Feb 2020 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: ,

Brennan and Buchanan explain modern monetary theory in The Power to Tax (1980)

03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment

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Nordhaus explains climate clubs for @jamespeshaw @mfe_news

26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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A Conversation with James M. Buchanan (1/2)

17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, Public Choice

Friedrich von Hayek and James Buchanan Part I

15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, F.A. Hayek, James Buchanan, law and economics, Public Choice Tags:

Hayek and Buchanan: Rawls, Egalitarianism and Social Justice

03 Jan 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, F.A. Hayek, James Buchanan, law and economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking Tags:

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