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Saturday, 30 March 2013

David Farrar just doesn't get it.

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With regard to the mixed ownership model David Farrar writes , This is the model that the unions and their allies have tried to destroy. ...
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A case study in privatisation

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At the IEA blog Wayne A. Leighton discusses the telecom reforms undertaken in Guatemala. He writes, In 1996, Guatemala adopted one of th...
Wednesday, 27 March 2013

EconTalk this week

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Scott Sumner of Bentley University and blogger at The Money Illusion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the basics of money, monet...
Monday, 25 March 2013

The architecture of innovation

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From VoxEU.org comes this audio in which Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his book "The Archi...

EconTalk for three weeks

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Leigh Steinberg, legendary sports agent, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career as a sports agent. He discusses the challen...

Incomplete contracts and the internal organisation of firms

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The theory of the firm - or organisational economics - spends much time on asking questions about the boundaries of the firm, about where on...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Unemployment is bad for employment

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No really! The following is a summary by Lester Picker, from the latest (March 2013) NBER Digest , of the findings of the paper,  Duratio...
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

The Presidency as theatre

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From the Independent Institute comes an article by Mary Theroux on the shameless and hypocritical use of the Oscars to promote the Obama s...

Effects of pharmaceutical promotion (updated)

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Pharmaceutical promotion, to doctors and consumers, is controversial in most countries. New Zealand has one of the more liberal sets of regu...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013

EconTalk this week

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Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and the economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk...
Monday, 25 February 2013

The minimum wage in the U.K.

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The Gunderson report referred to in the previous posting on the effects of the minimum wage in Canada also has a short section on the effe...
Sunday, 24 February 2013

The minimum wage in Canada

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What we know about the effects of the minimum wage are largely based on work from the USA. But there is evidence from other countries includ...
Saturday, 23 February 2013

Video of the Israel M. Kirzner FSSO Award ceremony

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A video from a ceremony to honour Dr. Israel M. Kirzner's contributions to market process theory and entrepreneurship studies, (HT:...

Moral hazard and SOEs

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From the TVNZ website comes this comment: Any Government bailout of beleaguered state-owned coalminer Solid Energy must not further devas...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

EconTalk this week

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Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise ...

More on Alchian

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Bob Higgs on Alchian Alex Tabarrok on Alchian Peter Boettke on Alchian Barkley Rosser on Alchian Doug Allen on Alchian David Henderson...

Armen Alchian dies at age 98

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Another of the great old guard of economics has gone. As a theory of the firm man I think of Armen Alchian as one of the developers of the n...
Friday, 15 February 2013

A new paper on reviwing what we know about multinational firms

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Multinational firms are an obvious part of the economic landscape, and have been for a long time, perhaps the oldest still existing multinat...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

Tim Harford on Bill Phillips

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This is the latest video from the recording of Tim Harford's radio series, “Pop Up Economics“.
Wednesday, 13 February 2013

In which Matt gets it right

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Over at TVHE Matt Nolan has a good rant and gets things right in the process. He writes, Let me start this by underlying everything with...
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