
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
17 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The withering away of the proletariat @AOC @BernieSanders
16 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: envy, The Great Enrichment

What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Richard Posner on the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective” on YouTube
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: competition, creative destruction
Spot on Bryan Caplan
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: methodology of economics, philosophy of science, racial discrimination, sex discrimination

Facts trump feelings
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, political correctness, regressive left

Juice: How Electricity Explains The World – Documentary Trailer #1
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: climate alarmists, extreme poverty, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Escape
The price of NIMBYs
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics
Strategy and Arms Control
13 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, politics - USA, Thomas Schelling, war and peace Tags: Cold War
Why conspiracy theories are rational to believe
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: cognitive psychology, conspiracy theorists, political psychology
Jordan Peterson on @BillMaher
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, television Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Do you believe top sociologists or your own lying eyes? Field experiments missed a social revolution
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: racial discrimination

From The persistence of racial discrimination in hiring Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2017, 114 (41) 10870-10875; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706255114
9/11 refuge revisited: Gander Airport
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - USA, transport economics, war and peace Tags: 9/11




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