UCLA Economics Department | Harold Demsetz Conference
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Go woke, go broke
27 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
in administration, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, theory of the firm Tags: political correctness, regressive left

What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed
14 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, theory of the firm, unemployment Tags: fall of communism
Cost Over-Runs in Infrastructure Projects
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Harold Demsetz Conference
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Friedman and the process of inflation
28 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
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Josh Wright | UCLA Law and Economics, Relational Contracts, and Antitrust
04 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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A Conversation with Armen A. Alchian 2001
13 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
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Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Stop Three Waters
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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The tight Detroit automaker oligopoly had wildly unstable market shares and investment strategies
13 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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Essential UCLA School of Economics: The Economics of Unintended Consequences
06 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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