
The great contraction in safe collateral
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, efficient markets hypothesis, moral hazard

Richard Epstein, “A History of Public Utility Regulation in the Supreme Court”
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: competition law, network economics, price controls
Affordable housing – a growing concern for people and governments @OECD
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply
More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises – Steven E. Landsburg
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, economics of religion, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
The crass hypocrisy of the woke left
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Piketty’s class war was based on measurement error
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias






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