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Amazon had some bad times
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in entrepreneurship, financial economics, law and economics Tags: superstars
More creative destruction
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Judge Richard Posner on the Role and Performance of the Judiciary” on YouTube
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in law and economics, Richard Posner
Steven Pinker – “Enlightenment Now…” | Talks at Google
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in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment
when austrian economists attack
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A few years ago, the late Sherlock Hibbs gave $5M to his alma mater, the University of Missouri. The intent was for Mizzou to hire six (!) professors and each needed to be a “dedicated and articulate disciple” of Ludwig von Mises. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the university got sued by Hillsdale College over this donation. Why? Hillsdale College claims that the terms of the donation were not met and the terms of the donation require that the gift, now valued at $9M would go to Hillsdale if the University of Missouri could not fulfill its terms.
Comment #1: This is a fascinating way to create some enforcement within the non-profit sector. It’s not full proof but in relatively simple donations, third parties would be willing to litigate if the reward was big enough and the enforcer could be written into the contract. Hillsdale is ideologically…
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Life Without Petroleum @greenpeace @NZGreens #EndOil
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
When a Spaniard moved to backward Minnesota
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in income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unions Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, employment regulation
Recharging times on electric cars are crap @NZGreens @Greenpeace
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: electric cars
Marijuana prohibition is racist and criminal, harms kids, and ruins lives | Johann Hari @nzdrug
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in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, health economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: marijuana decrimilization, unintended consequences
The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism
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in economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: 2020 presidential election
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