Introduction to Public Choice, Alex Tabarrok
23 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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Why megaproject cost overruns?
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Land supply is everything to housing affordability
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, public economics, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
Your work on the US found that productivity shocks explain most of the cyclical fluctuations the economy has experienced. Does this finding have any bearing on the nature of public policy?
17 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: regressive left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings
Economic Growth in the Long Run: Artificial Intelligence Explosion or an Empty Planet? Ben Jones & Chad Jones
27 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, economics of fertility, endogenous growth theory
The architecture trend dividing London’s elites
27 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: land supply, zoning
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
21 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, top 1%, unintended consequences
Prescott on business cycles
16 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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Edward C. Prescott 2015 Nov 11. Video – Edward C. Prescott (2014) – The Revolution in Aggregate Economics https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/33975/edward-prescott/laureate-prescott Accessed 2021 Nov 15.
Prescott on business cycles
16 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in business cycles, Edward Prescott, history of economic thought, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
Edward C. Prescott 2015 Nov 11. Video – Edward C. Prescott (2014) – The Revolution in Aggregate Economics <https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/33975/edward-prescott/laureate-prescott>. Accessed 2021 Nov 15.
The reduced supply of safe assets
07 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics Tags: monetary policy
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