
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Dr. Ross McKitrick
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism
Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Why feed conspiracy theorists
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, Public Choice Tags: conspiracy theories, free speech

Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism
V.V. Chari testifies on modern macroeconomics and information prerequisites to predicting the GFC
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

The Time Canada ALMOST Split Into Two (Possibly Three)
08 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, International law, Public Choice Tags: Canada, economics of succession
Progress and Incidence: The incidence of a capital-income tax
08 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax incidence
James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
07 Oct 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, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
Jon Elster on the lack of gender analysis in the labour theory of value
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: female labour force participation, marital division of labour





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