
Duflo and Banerje are a cross between Trump and crazy Bernie on economic populism
31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-foreign bias, economics of immigration, free trade
Bodyguard reveals lifestyle of Fidel Castro – Newsnight archives
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Castro, Cuba
Richard Posner on public intellectuals
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: fall of communism, useful idiots

@@jeremycorbyn wants the terrorists to win
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, useful idiots, war against terror

Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, endogenous growth theory, envy, superstars, top 1%, wealth taxes

A Conversation with George P. Shultz and David D. Friedman
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Ronald Reagan
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
Do bosses take your labour surplus with them when they die? More on the rise of a working rich @AOC @BernieSanders
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value, top 1%

from http://www.ericzwick.com/capitalists/capitalists.pdf
Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,
The economics of @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn @NZGreens @oxfam @Greenpeace
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment




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