Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the Eurocrisis
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: banking panics, moral hazard
The Left’s War on Science
13 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, rentseeking Tags: academic bias
The Problem With Affirmative Action | We The Internet TV
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
.@mfe_news advised @jamespeshaw that a net zero carbon economy will cut annual GDP growth by 1/10 or more. Is that a 4% reduction in GDP by 2050?
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: climate alarmism

Half of Venezuela’s oil exports were to the US until a few months ago
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Venezuela

Too late now
07 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmism

Gambling for Redemption and Self-fulfilling Debt Crises
06 May 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, international economic law, International law, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: banking panics, sovereign debt crises
Introduction to Microeconomics (Lecture 9: Monopoly and Competition) Murray N. Rothbard
03 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antitrust economics, competition law
Mandela’s legacy: 25 years on | The Economist
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, political change, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: apartheid, South Africa


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