Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Gas is ending coal @Greens @AOC @NZGreens
21 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, pretence to knowledge, The fatal conceit
#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @BernieSanders
18 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: The fatal conceit
Future directions of research in the Coasean tradition: Sam Peltzman
16 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, George Stigler, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, Sam Peltzman, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The dead are many from the #COVID19 lockdown
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Unclear if Draconian Measures Saved Lives — John P.A. Ioannidis
06 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting bbehaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
What should public service economists do?
05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, Public Choice, public economics Tags: The fatal conceit
.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots
Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
#GreenNewDeal @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: 2020 New Zealand election, 2020 presidential election, The fatal conceit
At the depths of the #COVID19 depression
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Angus Deaton: Epidemiology, randomised trials, and the search for what works in economic development
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: philosophy of science, The fatal conceit
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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