Exploring Liberty: The Problem of Political Ignorance
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance
Lee Ohanian on crisis management
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice

Woolworth Lunch Counter civil rights sit-in
26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: racial discrimination
17 of the 100 biggest grossing films were filmed in Georgia in 2016
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, movies, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: film subsidies
The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

Brad DeLong quote to be read out to leftists who complains about WINZ or any other bureaucracy
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand
My @NZHerald op-ed on petrol prices and competition
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Why the US and Iran are fighting over this tiny waterway
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, war and peace Tags: Iran
Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
Reformation and Consequences: Crash Course European History #7
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of religion, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Protestant Reformation
My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
@NZComCom’s petrol pricing report is an ode to the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm of decades and decades gone by
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, Ronald Coase Tags: competition law

Despite itself, @nzcomcom reveals rampant secret price discounting in the petrol cartel/oligopoly
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: cartel enforcement, cartel theory, competition law






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