
Presidential Candidates Crave the Spotlight. 200 Years Ago That Was Taboo. Here’s Why.
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, Public Choice
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
Hetzel on the golden age of Keynesian macroeconomic policy
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics

Barack Obama takes on ‘woke’ call-out culture: ‘That’s not activism’
04 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left
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
The woke left and environmentalists to a tee
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, political psychology, regressive left

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

Angus Deaton on randomised trials and the class war
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, experimental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

The Bit of East Germany That Might Still Exist
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Cuba, East Germany, fall of communism
Why Turkey is invading Syria
02 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, growth disasters, International law, labour supply, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Syrian Civil War
Only rational expectations macroeconomics can explain self-fulfilling crises
01 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: Euroland, rational expectations, sovereign defaults

Jordan Peterson on @Metoo
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: sex discrimination, sexual harassment


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