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Real Time with @BillMaher: New Rule – Don’t Romanticize Socialism – June 10, 2016 (HBO)

23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, television Tags: 2016 presidential election, economics of socialism, regressive left

Thomas Sowell – Preferential Policies (Fascinating 1990 Interview)

21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell

Tullock Lecture: Richard Epstein

20 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment regulation, Uber

Note to a jetlagged @jamespeshaw from William Nordhous

16 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: climate activists, free riding, game theory

William D. Nordhaus, who was just named the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics, on why agreements to slow global warming have failed https://t.co/nM6KRtaCfI pic.twitter.com/J9zUVrxCoG

— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) October 8, 2018

Excellent to see Nordhaus win the Nobel, but the pairing with the IPCC 1.5 degree report is a bit awkward given Nordhaus' recent paper suggesting a 3+ degree scenario is optimal. I hope someone asks him about this. pic.twitter.com/cOLSH6J8fj

— Noah Kaufman (@noahqk) October 8, 2018

Nordhous cancels the class war @Ocasio2018 @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn @oxfamnz

09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism, Roman empire, Thomas Sowell

What makes countries rich or poor?

09 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Escape

The dirty secret of clean energy | The Economist

03 Dec 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: solar power, wind power

More for light rail enthusiasts @PhilTwyford @JulieAnneGenter @TaxpayersUnion

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Dilbart on Shane Jones and his regional speedup

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Climate Change Nuisance Suits Federalist Society

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by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: nuisance suits

Spot on

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Well put

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Nucky & the Boardwalk Empire

06 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, television Tags: economics of prohibition, organized crime

John Oliver on Economic Development

29 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: industry policy, picking winners

Libertarian Land

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Arin’s Substack

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David Andolfatto

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Monetary Non-Neutrality

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Reason Magazine

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Thoughts from the North

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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

A History of the Alt-Right

Econ Prof at George Mason University, Economic Historian, Québécois

Bassett, Brash & Hide

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Truth on the Market

Scholarly commentary on law, economics, and more

The Undercover Historian

Beatrice Cherrier's blog

Matua Kahurangi

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Temple of Sociology

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Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

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Why Evolution Is True

Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.

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A rural perspective with a blue tint by Ele Ludemann

DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003

The Dangerous Economist

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Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

The Logical Place

Tim Harding's writings on rationality, informal logic and skepticism

A window into Doc Freiberger's library

The Risk-Monger

Let's examine hard decisions!

Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey

Barrie Saunders

Thoughts on public policy and the media

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Politics and the economy

James Bowden's Blog

A blog (primarily) on Canadian and Commonwealth political history and institutions

Science Matters

Reading between the lines, and underneath the hype.

Economics, and such stuff as dreams are made on

A Venerable Puzzle

"The British constitution has always been puzzling, and always will be." --Queen Elizabeth II

The Antiplanner

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History of Sorts

WORLD WAR II, MUSIC, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST

Roger Pielke Jr.

Undisciplined scholar, recovering academic

Offsetting Behaviour

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JONATHAN TURLEY

Res ipsa loquitur - The thing itself speaks

Conversable Economist

In Hume’s spirit, I will attempt to serve as an ambassador from my world of economics, and help in “finding topics of conversation fit for the entertainment of rational creatures.”

The Victorian Commons

Researching the House of Commons, 1832-1868

The History of Parliament

Articles and research from the History of Parliament Trust

Reflections on books and art

Legal History Miscellany

Posts on the History of Law, Crime, and Justice

Sex, Drugs and Economics

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European Royal History

Exploring the Monarchs of Europe

Tallbloke's Talkshop

Cutting edge science you can dice with