The Economic Case Against Majoring in Fun Things – The Atlantic
03 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: human capital, Returns to education
Four Distinct Foreign-Policy Orientations
03 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in International law, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: non-interventionist foreign policy
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Four Distinct Foreign-Policy Orientations |
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| Internationalist: Willing to intervene in foreign affairs | Isolationist: Reluctant to intervene in foreign affairs | |
| Emphasis on the national interest as primary value in foreign policy | National-interest interventionism | National-interest isolationism |
| Significant emphasis on altruism in foreign policy | Altruistic interventionism | Altruistic isolationism |
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Source: Reichley 2000. |
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Economic policy uncertainty in the USA
01 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: great recession, Nicholas Bloom, regime uncertainty
Source: Nicholas Bloom (2014) – all data at www.policyuncertainty.com. Data normalized to 100 prior to 2010.
The meddlesome preferences of the Green Left
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Green Left, Leftover Left, meddlesome preferences
Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party compared
28 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, rentseeking Tags: corporate welfare, Occupy Wall Street, rent seeking, tea party, top 1%
Richard A. Posner: Wire Trap | New Republic
27 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Richard Poser, terrorism
More Efficient Tax Systems Lead to Bigger Government
26 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Casey Mulligan, Gary Becker, growth in government, public choice
What does it mean to be worse off now than in 1979?
22 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - USA Tags: poverty and inequality, The Great Enrichment
Does the chart say that the basket of goods you could buy in 1979, in quantity and quality, was better than now? Every technological upgrade and new product has passed everyone by but the rich?
It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, election campaigns, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics, technological progress Tags: free trade, globalisation, market augmenting governments
Politicians can’t be heroes any more. Instead, they have to operate within the tightly drawn tramlines of the global economy.
This is true for those on the left and the right, but the pressure that this places on countries to adopt a low-tax, light-regulation regime is something with which the right is far more comfortable.
via It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator.
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