Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, British empire, economics of colonialism
@BillMaher on Hunter Biden: If It Was Don Jr., ‘It Would Be All Rachel Maddow Was Talking About’
30 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, bribery and corruption
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
@TimurKuran: Persistent Authoritarianism in the Middle East and the Islamic Law
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
The Balance of Power: States, Societies, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty – James Robinson
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: rent seeking
Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism with Commentary by Paul Bjerk
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism
The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Cold War, economics of colonialism, World War II
The Great Fact
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, The Great Escape

Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences





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