HT: Brad Delong
Roberts Solow on the British disease and Eurosclerosis
21 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in currency unions, economic growth, economics of regulation, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics Tags: British disease, Euroland, European Union, Eurosclerosis, Robert Solow
HT: Brad Delong
Europe’s Climate Fail
17 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, politics - USA Tags: Carbon cap, carbon tax, carbon trading, European Union
Europe’s rate of decarbonization was essentially identical before and after the ETS was introduced. If the program has effects, decarbonization has not been detectable beyond historical business-as-usual rates.
HT: http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/roger-pielke-jr/europes-climate-fail
Why did Britain join the EU? A new insight from economic (and political) history
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in Euro crisis, international economic law, macroeconomics Tags: British economy, EU membership, European Union
Nice article by Nauro F. Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli on UK-EU history.
It tracks the history behind the two regions and why UK eventually joined EU in 1973:
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Super-Economy: The rich in Europe are poor.
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Euroland, European Union, inequality and poverty
How does the standard of living compare across the EU?
13 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in macroeconomics Tags: European Union
EU’s rate of decarbonisation is identical before and after the ETS was introduced in 2000
13 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in climate change, economics of climate change, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate alarmism, European Union, expressive voting, global warming
Whatever impact the EU ETS has had, the US achieved similar results with no carbon market (and some might argue, with no climate policy at all. Both the US and EU reduced aggregate emissions by 6.4 percent from 2000.
Trade, investment and economic interdependence promote peace alert: Russian economic ties with Europe
30 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
What’s going on in the EU with the electing of so many anti-EU candidates?
05 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, Federalism, Public Choice Tags: European Union
The best achievements of European institutions have all stemmed from removing restrictions—to trade, travel, residency and financial transactions.
But for at least 30 years, the EU has mainly been in the business of imposing restrictions on everything from the judicial sentences that national courts can impose to the shape of the vegetables that Europeans get to eat.
Stealth Europe transmogrified into Busybody Europe.
Wall Street Journal via Managerial Econ: What’s going on in the EU?
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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