Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism, imperialism
The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
@PaulKrugman explains #TPPANoWay
03 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, health economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: patents and copyright, preferential trade agreements
@paulkrugman on what the #TPPA was and wasn’t #TPPANoWAY
02 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in international economics, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: patents and copyright, preferential trade agreements

@paulkrugman at his best on #TPPANoWay
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: preferential trade agreements, trade creation, trade diversion
The case against wind power
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: wind power

Steven Pinker on Mao’s Great Leap
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, The Great Escape

Why was India Partitioned?
28 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, India, World War II
Democracy in action is about access and influence
24 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption








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