Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit
Is @jeremycorbyn antisemitic? With historian Deborah Lipstadt.
18 Oct 2019 1 Comment
in discrimination, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: British politics, racial discrimination
@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of socialism, The fatal conceit
James Heckman on the lab rats fighting back against the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Pritchett on the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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A Presidential Debate Can Make or Break a Campaign, Here’s How | @nytimes
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election
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
The Invisible 310-Mile Barrier to a #Brexit Deal | @WSJ
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brexit, Ireland
Economic Reasoning Applied to Sociology – Becker and Posner
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Gary Becker, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: economics of AIDS
Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Peter Singer on free speech and the denial of the Holocaust that murdered three of his grandparents
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech, The Holocaust
35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
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