
Matthew Kahn on the mixed messages of mayors to the bond markets and the courts
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism, securities fraud

Robert Bork: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings
14 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, Robert Bork
Robert Bork, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and the radicalism of the original intent of equal protection before the law (via George Will)
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination, Robert Bork

Richard Posner: Constitutional Interpretation
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: constitutional law
Scalia in full flight including against the Whig theory of history
10 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Antonin Scalia, constitutional law
Antonin Scalia – Philosophy of an Originalist
10 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Antonin Scalia, constitutional law
My favorite quote on British colonialism
09 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: British empire, economics of colonialism

Interesting point by Richard Epstein
02 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, gender, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, transport economics Tags: competition law, creative destruction, racial discrimination

Solar power has been a celebrity technology since I was in high school and still can’t compete without subsidies
01 Jul 2018 1 Comment

Stigler explains how intellectuals and consultants ply their policy trade honestly
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, George Stigler, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: consultants, job sorting, public intellectuals

The Fall of New York City’s Taxi King
27 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, taxi regulation, transitional gains trap, Uber




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