Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
The risks of doing business in 1990s Russia
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, fall of communism, transitional economies

@BernieSanders on the Soviet Union Press Conference 06 13 1988
01 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit, useful idiots
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
Do @AOC or @SenSanders disagree?
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin, East Germany, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit

Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd
19 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, Milton Friedman, politics - USA Tags: fall of communism, special interests
What Socialism Looks Like: A 1980s Soviet Grocery Store
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: fall of communism, The Great Enrichment
Did Reagan’s Real Star Wars Bankrupt the Soviet Union?
22 May 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics Tags: fall of communism, space
The man who could not believe Marks & Spencer was open to the public
17 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism
Property is theft
22 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: fall of communism




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