Create a Black Market the Easy Way!
20 May 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation Tags: offsetting behaviour, price controls, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Friedman: Law, Economics and Liberty
18 May 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Always worth remembering
03 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in F.A. Hayek Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Zero road deaths goal avoid accountability for failing to achieve more realistic goals
23 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics Tags: road safety, The fatal conceit, virtue signalling

Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

#endoil?!
06 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

John Gibson – Hard but not early – the real cost of NZ’s lockdown
07 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Why the US isn’t ready for clean energy
26 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, solar energy, The fatal conceit, wind power
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti-Discrimination Laws
11 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, labour economics, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit
Thomas Sowell – Landmark Speech at AEI with President Gerald Ford
09 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination, The fatal conceit
Jordan Peterson explains Equality of Opportunity (With thought bubbles)
07 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Cass Sunstein Simpler
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It Bent Flyvbjerg
25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: entrepreneurship, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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