
Green New Deal sidesteps the lack of progress on electric planes!
08 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: climate alarmists, The fatal conceit

Free to Choose Part 5: Created Equal Featuring Milton Friedman
07 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
The Elephant In The Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
31 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of information, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: signalling
Free To Choose 1980 – The Tyranny of Control – Markets
21 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, market efficiency, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: invisible hand
A history of the Kashmir conflict | The Economist
19 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economics, International law, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of borders, economics of colonialism, India, maps, Pakistan
To Beat the Trade War, Companies Get Creative Breaking the Rules @WSJ
17 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: free trade, protectionism
Groom of the Stool (Worst Jobs in History)
16 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking
Stigler on Galbraith’s 1977 TV series episode on colonialism
14 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, television Tags: economics of colonialism

10 Crazy Ways Prohibition Influenced America
11 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of prohibition, offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
Chad Jones’ awkward remarks on top tax rates and innovation spillovers
09 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%

The Injustice of Corporate Welfare
06 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics, survivor principle Tags: industry policy, picking winners
Gender gaps are conclusive evidence that Sweden is a sexist hellhole
05 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, glass ceiling

Philip Payton Jr.: The Crusading Capitalist Who Outwitted New York’s Racist Landlords
02 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: racial discrimination
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