
Infrastructure spending is back in the news @jamespeshaw @NZGreens @TaxpayersUmion
19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects, The fatal conceit

The hypocrisy of the woke @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: top 1%

David Friedman – Feud Law: Private and Decentralized
19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: economics of anarchy
Is there an alternative to Obamacare?
18 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: health insurance
theory of conflict by Thomas C Schelling 2016
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: game theory, Thomas Schelling
Alfred Marshall on state ownership
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: offsetting behaviour, state ownership, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Veteran judicial activist lawyer Laurence Tribe of all people drew this quote to my attention
16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

The lags on fiscal policy infrastructure spending are even longer
16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice
For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan
14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Jordan Peterson on Women’s Studies (from Joe Rogan Experience #877)
13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: regressive left
Tyler Cowen on the social and political implications of #COVID19
11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: economics of pandemics
How did Medieval Diplomacy Work?
11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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: diplomacy




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