James Flynn on Universities: “To even discuss the issue shows you’re a racist.”

27 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It Bent Flyvbjerg

25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Tullock Lecture: Deirdre McCloskey

22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Richard Epstein: “Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?”

22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History

21 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Thomas Sowell “Discrimination and Disparities” Interview on Critical Race Theory

19 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Best bets for public investment: Infrastructure keynote and discussion

13 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Edward Glaeser & Paul Romer on Rapid Urbanization

06 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Housing unaffordability

05 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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ACT MP Mark Cameron’s legislation is drawn from the “biscuit tin”

05 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, environmental economics, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice

Ronald Coase on JS Mill’s false doctrine of “natural monopoly”

02 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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Cities and Economic Growth with Edward Glaeser — UC San Diego Economics Roundtable

02 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

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How the Navajo Nation Works (A Country Within a Country?)

01 Jul 2021 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice

Jean Tirole: Market Failures and Public Policy

30 Jun 2021 1 Comment

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Edward Glaeser: The Urban Century – An Urban World

26 Jun 2021 Leave a comment

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