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
JS Mill on free speech
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economics of information, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech

The Middle East’s cold war, explained 2017
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Iran, Iraq, Middle-East politics
Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism, imperialism
Oscar Wilde on the @DemSocialists of America #DSACon19
05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, politics - USA

The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
Interesting referendum
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: conscription, Switzerland

Piketty’s best work was on the emergence of a working rich
03 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: superstars, top 1%

@PaulKrugman explains #TPPANoWay
03 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: patents and copyright, preferential trade agreements
Borders are revealing
02 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders

@paulkrugman on what the #TPPA was and wasn’t #TPPANoWAY
02 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in international economics, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: patents and copyright, preferential trade agreements

Life as a North Korean Elite | Former Ambassador Thae Yong-ho | China Uncensored
01 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: China, North Korea




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