
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Average man is stronger than over 99% of women, taller than 97% of women
21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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%

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

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
Finn Kyland on Ireland
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment
Coronavirus: Do socialists understand socialism?
29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics





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