Angus Deaton Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Roofs or Ceilings? The Current Housing Problem
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, George Stigler, income redistribution, law and economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Eric Posner on the paradoxes of having laws of war
31 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Catching Scotland’s Bag Dealers | Short Stuff | BBC Scotland Comedy
30 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: black markets, offsetting behaviour, recycling
Planned to walk to the supermarket but drove because it was too inconvenient to carry the reusable bags @EUGENIESAGE’S #PLASTICBAGFASCISM
24 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Can’t walk to the supermarket anymore because of #plasticbagfascism too inconvenient @eugeniesage
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, recycling, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
Geoffrey Heal on the carbon tax might be a waste of time? @jamespeshaw @greenpeace
31 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon tax, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Friedman Talk on how libertarians can be politically successful
30 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: market failure, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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