How many projects are shovel-ready with the border closed to a global construction engineers market?

04 May 2020 Leave a comment

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Myth of the Rational Voter

02 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: , , , , , ,

John Cochrane explains helicopter drops

01 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, public economics

From https://en.econreporter.com/2016/08/conversation-with-john-cochrane-part-ii-ftpl-and-the-state-of-macroeconomics/

Great depression unemployment rates

30 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags:

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Robert Barro explains Ricardian equivalence and tax smoothing

26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics

From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2005/interview-with-robert-barro

Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly

26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: ,

John Cochrane explains helicopter drops

25 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, public economics

From https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/papers/understanding_policy_EER.pdf

Rational irrationality? Oppositional identity? Virtue signaling?

21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: , ,

Average man is stronger than over 99% of women, taller than 97% of women

21 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Will #COVID19 rehabilitate infrastructure spending as a stimulus?

20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Thank @GreenpeaceAU @Greens @NZGreens for lower petrol prices

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics

From https://www.hanswernersinn.de/sites/default/files/2015_REEP9_Green_Paradox.pdf

David Friedman – Feud Law: Private and Decentralized

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economic history, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags:

Alfred Marshall on state ownership

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , ,

For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: , , ,

From https://www.aei.org/economics/one-way-abolishing-billionaires-would-undermine-silicon-valley-and-americas-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/

The growth of government stopped in Europe in the 1980s

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, fiscal policy, public economics

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