
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
Juice: How Electricity Explains The World – Documentary Trailer #1
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: climate alarmists, extreme poverty, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Escape
Angus Deaton: «lDevelopment aid is cynical» – Swiss Television SRF
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
The price of NIMBYs
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics
Cannot enforce a treaty if there was no meeting of minds on what was agreed
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: constitutional law, contract law

Why conspiracy theories are rational to believe
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology




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