Peter Boettke – The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought Tags: Peter Boettke
Ten Minute English and British History #20 – The English Civil War
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: British history
Blitzkrieg on Speed – Nazis on Crystal Meth Part 2 – WW2 SPECIAL
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
LSE Sociology: Are There Any Right-Wing Sociologists? (Maybe they mostly work in the criminology field!)
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle
The Real Life Sci-Fi of Vertical Take-Off Planes
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, transport economics
Crunched: is the inequality gap really widening?
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%
Nordhous summarises the economics of carbon clubs for the benefit of @mfe_news
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, international economics, Public Choice Tags: club goods
Elite Anxiety: Paul Collier’s “Future of Capitalism”
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Paul Collier, the controversial Oxford professor famous for his development work and his acclaimed books Exodus and The Bottom Billion, is back. But the author of Exodus and The Bottom Billion is long gone. The compelling writing and carefully reasoned world that made Bottom Billion impossible to put down has somehow disappeared. In The Future of Capitalism, Collier is tired. He is bitter. And he is sometimes quite mad – so mad that his disdain for this or that group of thinkers or actors in society consumes his otherwise brilliant analytical mind.
Instead of having his editors moderate those of his worst impulses, he doubles down on his polemic conviction. Indeed, he takes pride in offending people in all political camps, believing that it supports the book’s main intellectual point: ideologues of every persuasion are dangerous, one-size-fits-all too constricted for a modern society and we should rather turn…
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics Tags: racial discrimination
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