
@TimurKuran: Persistent Authoritarianism in the Middle East and the Islamic Law
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Why Nations Fail. Keynote Address by James Robinson
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: autocracy, The Great Enrichment
Daron Acemoğlu: “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: autocracy
James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
De-Stalinization: The Secret speech (1956)
29 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: autocracy, fall of communism, World War II
From Joe Biden’s “Promise me, Dad”
02 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, law and economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: autocracy, Russia

Dictator’s Handbook: Batista and Castro compared
05 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy, Cuba, fall of communism

Alastair Smith – The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
12 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics: What Leaders Get Away With
12 May 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, Public Choice Tags: autocracy, autocratic succession
Stalin: Inside the Terror
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: autocracy, Russia, Stalin, USSR
Can free trade agreements help solidify emerging democracies?
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, international economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy, customs unions, emerging democracies, free trade agreements, military coups, preferential trading agreements
Source: “Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy” (April 2014) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. American Economic Association.



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