Which billionaires will the @BernieSanders @SenWarren wealth tax abolish?
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, envy, superstars, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax
Angus Deaton on randomised trials and the class war
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, experimental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
On the ethics of the randomisters
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, health economics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit
@BernieSanders @AOC @jeremycorbyn @SenWarren
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of socialism, The fatal conceit
James Heckman on the lab rats fighting back against the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
Pritchett on the randomisters
18 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit
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
@WorldBank was said to fight world poverty one staff member at a time. Is one field research grant at a time to reconfirm the obvious any better?
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit
Nobel prize for discovering if you subsidise something, you see more of it!! Many years worth of randomized controlled trials just to make sure in dirt poor countries. Didn’t know child vaccination payoffs so marginal that you had to check.
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Richard Epstein | Simple Rules for Open Markets
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: The fatal conceit
Renewables alone by 2030 will not mean zero emissions but blackouts
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice Tags: British politics, solar power, The fatal conceit, wind power
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit
Another brain teaser for woke left @NZGreens @greenpeace @oxfam @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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