Coronavirus: Do socialists understand socialism?
29 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
Monetary Policy Arithmetic by Joydeep Bhattacharya and Joseph H. Haslag
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
When is a fiscal stimulus a positive productivity shock?
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics
Edward Prescott on the #GFC
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: real business cycle theory, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

The positive productivity shock from current government borrowing en masse
23 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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#COVID19 macroeconomics
22 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic growth, fiscal policy, health economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

Barro on Ricardian equivalence
20 Mar 2020 3 Comments
in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics

From https://www.wiwi.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/12010500/user_upload/skripte/ws05/themensozueb/Barro.pdf
.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, College premium, graduate premium, screening, self-selection, signaling
Hayek (1950) on why the current stimulus will fail
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy, Keynesian macroeconomics

What is a regulatory taking?
16 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: constitutional law, regulatory taking








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