India and Sri Lanka’s violent fight over fish
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders
Timur Kuran on “The Portal”, “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception.”
11 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: preference falsification
Closest @TheAusInstitute got to asking if the carbon tax should be unrepealed
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, Public Choice, public economics
#OTD biggest single individual leg up to the Great Enrichment: Mao died
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: China, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Voters still have short fingers and long pockets despite @Greenpeace @jamespeshaw ramping up their #ClimateEmergency rhetoric
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmism
From http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx
Thomas Sargent on rational expectations and the effect of taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
P. T. Bauer on the ravages of colonialism
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
@uklabour is using a Communist to promote voting! Difference between a communist and a socialist is communists shoot their political opponents. That is the only difference.
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, Public Choice
The solution to the #ClimateEmergency is at hand but is ignored because it might work @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
06 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, Thomas Schelling Tags: international public goods
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