California Home Prices Are Soaring. Here’s Why: houses as expensive as Wellington’s
09 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
On a dismal note
08 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of revolutions

Ronald Coase on JS Mill’s false doctrine of natural monopoly
07 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: natural monopoly, regulatory capture, special interest groups
The economics of @AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn explained
05 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: distributive justice, envy

Straight to the point; hydro power survives without subsidies; wind and solar doesn’t
04 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: green rentseeking, hydroelectric power, renewable energy, solar power, wind power

Why are GMOs Bad? @SciShow
25 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, fisheries economics, health economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, pessimism bias
Stossel: Jordan Peterson vs. “Social Justice Warriors”
24 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Cultural Marxism, political correctness, regressive left
#OTD Jeff Sachs retired as a serious economist
23 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics Tags: climate alarmism
.@equitablegrowth posted this FYI @AOC @SenSanders on every billionaire is a policy failure
22 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment

Real reason streetcars are making a comeback: with friends like @voxdotcom, light rail should prefer its enemies @TaxpayersUnion
18 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: expressive voting
Spot on antitrust economics as academic rentseeking
12 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antitrust economics, competition law

Students Love the Green New Deal… Until Hearing What’s In It
12 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global warming, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, monetary economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
09 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: top 1%



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