Capitalism and Millennials: The 2018 James Q. Wilson Lecture
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: pessimism bias
The Green New Deal’s Bad Science @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @Greenpeace @NZGreens
22 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists, nuclear power, solar power, wind power
Champ and Freeman on hyperinflation as always and everywhere a fiscal phenomenon
21 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
The World’s Strangest Borders Part 4: Ocean Madness
21 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, personnel economics, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of borders
Why have @jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders @MMFlint @AOC @TheOliverStone @NZGreens Sean Penn gone all quite on their socialist paradise?
20 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, energy economics, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of socialism, useful idiots, Venezuela
#climateemergency @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren @Greenpeace @oxfamnz @Greens @NZGreens @AmnestyNZ
20 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
10 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
Ross McKitrick: a truth-based cap-and-trade linked to tropical troposphere temperature, which you can then short if a skeptic or go long if an alarmist
07 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: cap and trade, carbon pricing, green rent seeking
Friedman (1951) thought the union wage premium was overstated because it can’t be as big as doctors’ extract from occupational licensing
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, occupational regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: barriers to entry, occupational licensing, union power, union wage premium
The wages of sin had a good run @USAMViceFund
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, industrial organisation, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness
This Unpleasant Royal Job Came with a Fancy Title
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking
Labour supply in the Indian caste system
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of religion, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: caste system, India, religious discrimination
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