The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy | The Economist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: affordable housing, land supply, zoning
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Question for @AOC @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Cuba, Hong Kong, The Great Enrichment

Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Transgender Athletes | Jordan Peterson & Joe Rogan
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, sports economics




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