What does ##DefundThePolice actually mean?
25 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, crime and punishment, law and order, political correctness, regressive left, useful idiots
Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
Why China’s control of rare earths matters | FT
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: China
At the depths of the #COVID19 depression
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, regressive left, The fatal conceit

Women’s sports
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination

Angus Deaton: Epidemiology, randomised trials, and the search for what works in economic development
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: philosophy of science, The fatal conceit
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation


How do B- students keep up with pace of medical school course, much less pass exams?
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination

Dominion Post 19 September 2020, p. A7
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Trailblazer, Dies at 87 | @WSJ
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, gender, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, constitutional law
Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
18 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Richard Posner on the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective” on YouTube
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: competition, creative destruction



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