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Scalia on who should decide vexing social issues @PeterDunneMP
Source: Antonin Scalia was a truly great Supreme Court justice.Filed under: comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics -...
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Note from @paulkrugman to @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn and their supporters
Filed under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, labour economics,...
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Justice Scalia again on golf and the majesty of the Supreme Court
Filed under: comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, sports economics
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@GarethMP proves the case for privatisation when arguing against privatisation
Green MP Gareth Hughes today nailed the case as to why governments should never run businesses. Too many MPs simply do not understand what dividends represent and what the profits from asset sales...
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Save Our Parks! How to Keep National Parks Open
Filed under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, resource economics Tagged: contracting-out, free market...
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Data chauvinism versus the 1st law of public policy development
I learnt at the Australian Productivity Commission that the first law of public policy development is plagiarised, plagiarise, plagiarise. Why be original? Copy the successes of others, improve upon...
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Why are conspiracy theorists so trusting of citizen initiated binding...
After reflecting far more than I should on some conspiracy laden testimony at Parliament yesterday, one of the things I recall was a demand that the approval of the TPPA be put to binding referendum....
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Negative Externalities and the Coase Theorem
Filed under: applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights Tagged: Coase theorem
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Monopolies and patents can breed deadweight loss and market inefficiencies
Filed under: applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights...
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Solution aversion and the anti-science Left
Climate science is the latest manifestation of solution aversion: denying a problem because it has a costly solution. The Right does this on climate science, the Left does it on gun control, GMOs, and...
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What have we learned from economics field experiments?
Filed under: applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, experimental economics, Gary Becker
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Note from @paulkrugman to @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn and their supporters
Filed under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, labour economics,...
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@GarethMP proves the case for privatisation when arguing against privatisation
Green MP Gareth Hughes today nailed the case as to why governments should never run businesses. Too many MPs simply do not understand what dividends represent and what the profits from asset sales...
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Save Our Parks! How to Keep National Parks Open
Filed under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights, resource economics Tagged: contracting-out, free market...
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Negative Externalities and the Coase Theorem
Filed under: applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights Tagged: Coase theorem
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Monopolies and patents can breed deadweight loss and market inefficiencies
Filed under: applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights...
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Solution aversion and the anti-science Left
Climate science is the latest manifestation of solution aversion: denying a problem because it has a costly solution. The Right does this on climate science, the Left does it on gun control, GMOs, and...
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Thinking about The Great Leap Forward | Econbrowser
Source: Thinking about The Great Leap Forward | Econbrowser Filed under: applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth,...
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SPECIFIC TYPES OF IRRATIONALITY THAT CAUSE GOVERNMENT FAILURE
Source: Gary Lucas and Slavisa Tasic‘s "Behavioral Public Choice and the Law" (West Virginia Law Review, 2015) via Bryan CaplanFiled under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis,...
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A challenge for @GarethMorgannz on disagreement in public policy making
Filed under: applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tagged: action bias, conjecture refutation,...
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