Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
18 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Richard Posner on the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective” on YouTube
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: competition, creative destruction
Angus Deaton: «lDevelopment aid is cynical» – Swiss Television SRF
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
Cannot enforce a treaty if there was no meeting of minds on what was agreed
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: constitutional law, contract law
Jordan Peterson: The fatal flaw in leftist American politics | Big Think
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-market bias, envy, pessimism bias, regressive left, top 1%
Discrimination at Harvard? | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono [The Glenn Show]
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
3rd. Global Conference Business Cycles – Edward C Prescott
10 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the European monetary crisis
01 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Edward Prescott, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Exploring Liberty, Part 4: Simple Rules for a Complex World
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, Richard Epstein Tags: rule of law
Demonetization: When 86% of India’s Currency Disappeared (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard)
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, currency unions, Euro, monetary policy
Exploring Liberty, Part 5: The Machinery of Freedom
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of anarchy
Campaign Ad: Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, election campaigns, environmental economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, unemployment, unions, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: 2020 presidential election, child poverty, crime and punishment, family poverty, law and order
The Great Fact @BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-market bias, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, useful idiots
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