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What does real business cycle theory cover?

12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote

11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism

From https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/rest.91.2.245

William Nordhaus on DICE, PAGE and FUND not modelling tipping points

10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, econometerics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, public economics

From https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/676035.pdf

V.V. Chari testifies on modern macroeconomics and information prerequisites to predicting the GFC

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Progress and Incidence: The incidence of a capital-income tax

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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax incidence

You do wonder why @mfe_news @jamespeshaw are so aggressively ignorant of Nordhaus and climate clubs?

05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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Piketty provoked excellent research into top tax rates and innovation

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Mankiw on wealth taxes

03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, fiscal policy, income redistribution, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Time to dial up the rhetoric. Declaring a #ClimateEmergency has not done the trick yet to persuade voters to overcome their hip-pocket nerve

29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election, climate alarmism

79% of respondents say humans are causing climate change — but 51% object to paying an extra $2 per month to fund emissions cuts. https://t.co/6SqLq0gLpD pic.twitter.com/8fv5S6VoKJ

— Christopher Flavelle (@cflav) September 26, 2019

When Marxists are mugged by reality

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by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”

20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism

Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism with Commentary by Paul Bjerk

18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of colonialism

Bad news for #greennewdeal @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren

18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

The economic and personal sacrifice that the average American would have to make in order to ban all fossil fuels within 10 years is orders of magnitude larger than a 25 cent gas tax increase. It's the right thing to do, but it WILL involve sacrifice.
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) September 15, 2019

So now we know the result of the incessant scare campaign on climate for the last 30 years

About half of all people across the world believe humanity will go extinct because of climate!

This is totally against what the UN Climate Panel tells ushttps://t.co/Z2SiPdDnaF pic.twitter.com/ro6cz5gvKL
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 17, 2019

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley

17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Cold War, economics of colonialism, World War II

Weitzman on the dark side of the Stern review

16 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

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