The ‘duck curve’ is solar energy’s greatest challenge
08 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power
Thomas Sargent, “Estados Unidos antes, Europa ahora”
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in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, George Stigler, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy, sovereign defaults
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: William Nordhaus
08 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading
Innovation and Growth Cycles
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in applied price theory, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, real business cycles
The Wright Flyer: The Spectacular Birth of Modern Flight (That Many People Believed Was Fake)
08 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in television
How Humans Lost Their Fur
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in economics of education, economics of media and culture
Essential Coase: The Lighthouse in Economics
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Ronald Coase
Back For Christmas? – The Illusion Of A Short War I THE GREAT WAR – Week 11
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Monopsony and immigration
07 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: economics of immigration, monopsony
In The Footsteps of Mr Kurz by Michela Wrong (2000)
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Comparing Michela Wrong and David van Reybrouck
David van Reybrouck’s account of Congo’s modern history is basically an orthodox chronological account and political analysis interspersed with interviews with the many veterans and eye witnesses he has tracked down and spoken with at length.
Wrong’s account feels completely different, less chronological or, indeed, logical, more thematic. Instead of historical analysis, she brilliantly conveys what it felt like to live in Zaire under Mobutu as she sets about systematically exploring and describing different aspects of Zaire society and culture. Her vividness of approach is demonstrated by the way the book opens with the fall of Mobutu in 1997, going light on political analysis and strong on vivid descriptions of what it felt like to live in a crumbling, corrupt third world country.
Chapter one dwells on the role played in so many African states by key international hotels in their capitals, in…
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