Is there an alternative to Obamacare?

18 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags:

theory of conflict by Thomas C Schelling 2016

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: ,

Alfred Marshall on state ownership

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , ,

Veteran judicial activist lawyer Laurence Tribe of all people drew this quote to my attention

16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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The lags on fiscal policy infrastructure spending are even longer

16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice

From https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/12/policy-lags.html

For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: , , ,

From https://www.aei.org/economics/one-way-abolishing-billionaires-would-undermine-silicon-valley-and-americas-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/

Jordan Peterson on Women’s Studies (from Joe Rogan Experience #877)

13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

Tyler Cowen on the social and political implications of #COVID19

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, health and safety, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags:

How did Medieval Diplomacy Work?

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, International law, Public Choice, war and peace Tags:

The Meaning of Socialism: Q&A with National Review’s Kevin Williamson

11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: ,

Allan Meltzer on the 1930s Fed’s main concern

08 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, unemployment

From https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=190xVQDRtHAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+History+of+the+Federal+Reserve,+Volume+1:+1%E2%80%A6+(Paperback)by+Allan+H.+Meltzer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL-rjN_NPoAhVnH7cAHdbzDjwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

#COVID

06 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: ,

Policy in 60 Seconds: Why we need a nationwide rates freeze… NOW

06 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: , ,

Joe Stiglitz predicts

06 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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The Red Tape Pandemic

02 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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