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
Richard Epstein: “Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?”
22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: constitution law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Lost on the Left
02 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage Tags: offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall
17 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall, East Germany, fall of communism, unintended consequences
The fatal conceit
22 May 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, F.A. Hayek, growth disasters, history of economic thought, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: China, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Who will hate speech laws actually silence?
10 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left, unintended consequences
.@ClimateCommNZ has banned new restaurants
09 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, survivor principle Tags: climate alarmists, unintended consequences
HT: Tim Andrews
08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Milton Friedman on Regulations and Consumers
03 Nov 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Milton Friedman, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, unintended consequences
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