Thomas J. Sargent speaks on Euro Crisis
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, international economics, International law, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: moral hazard, sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults, Thomas Sargent
Thomas Sargent Emergency Economic Summit for Greece: Part 2
18 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: sovereign defaults, Thomas Sargent
No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes (amazing story)
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: bribery and corruption, India
Today’s rich are a working rich says an unimpeachable source
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the Eurocrisis
16 May 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, history of economic thought, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: banking panics, moral hazard
So @mfe_news advised @jamespeshaw that unilateral action is futile. Only global action will help.
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics, resource economics Tags: climate alarmism, free-riders, game theory, international public goods
.@mfe_news advised @jamespeshaw that a net zero carbon economy will cut annual GDP growth by 1/10 or more. Is that a 4% reduction in GDP by 2050?
08 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic growth, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: climate alarmism
Taxing marijuana
04 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, politics - USA, public economics Tags: marijuana decrimilization
David D. Friedman With some thoughts on his new book
24 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, income redistribution, law and economics, libertarianism, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of anarchy
Green New Deal: Fact versus Fiction
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: atomic energy, renewable energy, solar power, wind power
Little has changed
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, energy economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
David D. Friedman | Market failure
22 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, Gordon Tullock, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: market failure
The struggles for independence and the impact of redrawing borders | The Economist
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, International law, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: economics of borders, economics of colonialism, economics of succession, maps
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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