The type of shock that starts a crisis is less important than reaction to the shock by the government
05 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice
Stephen Kotkin & Keith Gessen | Stalin
04 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Russian revolution, World War I
Bouncing Back: The Role of Social Safety Nets
03 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: poverty traps
I usually stop reading at the first mention of the @UN
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment, top 1%
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
A Million Mutinies: The key to economic development |Robert Lucas 2001
02 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: economics of immigration, The Great Enrichment
Edward Glaeser on Survival of the City
01 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics
The High Cost of Good Intentions with John F. Cogan: Perspectives on Policy
31 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: taxation and labour supply
Stop Three Waters
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, theory of the firm
Ed Glaeser doesn’t hold back
28 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: green rentseeking, NIMBY
Daron Acemoglu on How Inequality Weakens Nations
26 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle
Lee Ohanian on Sweden’s Experiment with Socialism
26 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Sweden
When will #COVID19 job support cross into the zombie quagmire?
25 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, Japan, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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