
Taiwanese demographic transition was driven by rising incomes so China’s was decades early
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of love and marriage, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: China, demographic transition, economics of fertility, Taiwan, The Great Escape

No landlord with rent to tenants with less than stellar credentials from now on.
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Pessimism in a World of Increasing Abundance (Steven Pinker)
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, International law, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
The Weirdest Borders in the World
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders, maps
David Seymour on the Freedom to Speak Bill
16 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: free speech
Energy project cost overruns
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, entrepreneurship, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice Tags: megaprojects

Innovation and Growth Cycles David Levine
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Federalism, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle
Life behind the Berlin Wall | The Economist
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Berlin, fall of communism, Germany
Roger D. Congleton on democracy coming through revolution
11 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom
Nordhaus on tipping points
11 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists






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