
@BernieSanders @AOC
13 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%

Dumbest #COVID19 idea yet
12 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, economics of pandemics, endogenous growth theory, patents and copyright

Does real business cycle theory ignore depressions?
10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycle theory

The great contraction in safe collateral
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, efficient markets hypothesis, moral hazard

More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises – Steven E. Landsburg
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, economics of religion, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Piketty’s class war was based on measurement error
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left





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