
Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism

Lessons from Africa
04 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption, economics of colonialism, ODA
@AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment

Edward Prescott on the benefits of the common market
01 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, industrial organisation, international economic law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: Common market, customs unions, preferential trade agreements

Exploring Liberty: The Problem of Political Ignorance
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance
17 of the 100 biggest grossing films were filmed in Georgia in 2016
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, movies, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: film subsidies
The Chinese and Russian transitions explained
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: China, economics of federalism, fall of communism, Russia

Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit





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