
Thomas Sargent on rational expectations and the effect of taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational expectations, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment

Would these tech giants ever have become superstars if their founders had to sell down their controlling interests years ago to pay their wealth taxes
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Hershleifer contrasts normative versus positive analysis
03 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit

@AOC @SenSanders @jeremycorbyn
02 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capitalism and freedom, The Great Enrichment

Finn Kydland on the slow recovery from the Great Recession
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, fiscal policy, great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics Tags: real business cycles

@AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
29 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice, public economics

Exploring Liberty: The Problem of Political Ignorance
27 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance
17 of the 100 biggest grossing films were filmed in Georgia in 2016
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, industrial organisation, movies, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: film subsidies
Why the US and Iran are fighting over this tiny waterway
23 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, energy economics, growth disasters, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, war and peace Tags: Iran
Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
My @NZGreens’ proposed Parliamentary Budget Office is more Machiavellian than meets the eye @DomPost op-ed
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit






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