Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
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Executive Power & the Louisiana Purchase
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in economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
English Civil War: Crash Course European History
10 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of religion, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: British history, English Civil War, Glorious revolution
David Bernstein on the hollow hope that antidiscrimination laws lead social progress
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The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
Can Cities Sue Oil Companies for Climate Change? [POLICYbrief]
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in economic history, economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nuisance suits
Acemoglu and Robinson on the geography hypothesis
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Daron Acemoğlu: “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: autocracy
Japanese courts must be as boring as Richard Epstein wanted in a good legal system
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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From Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law By J. Mark Ramseyer
How many cultures had an Age of Enlightenment? Fought a war to end slavery?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, American Civil War

Richard Epstein wants the courts to be boring and predictable
08 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: The fatal conceit

Richard Epstein on Maori sovereignty
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Maori economic development

Caldwell on Hayek and the high school libertarians
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in F.A. Hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy

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