Lant Pritchett — The Debate about RCTs in Development is over.
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A Presidential Debate Can Make or Break a Campaign, Here’s How | @nytimes
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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
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The Invisible 310-Mile Barrier to a #Brexit Deal | @WSJ
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Economic Reasoning Applied to Sociology – Becker and Posner
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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
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Peter Singer on free speech and the denial of the Holocaust that murdered three of his grandparents
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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
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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
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Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
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Dr. Ross McKitrick
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