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Friday, 15 January 2021

The Theory of the Firm: An Overview of the Economic Mainstream, Revised Edition

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This is a revised edition of Walker (2017). New sections or subsections have been added on the X-inefficiency model, the division of labour ...
Wednesday, 4 November 2020

The antitrust case against Google

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From the Cato Daly Podcast comes this interview in which Geoffrey Manne of the International Center for Law and Economics evaluates the cla...
Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Grumpy Economist: the future of cities. a conversation with Harvard's Ed Glaeser

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Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems a...
Thursday, 22 October 2020

The Black Death

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At VoxEU.org Mark Koyama is interviewed by Tim Phillips on the topic of The Black Death Seven hundred years ago the worst pandemic in his...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Questions about Neanderthals answered

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From the BBC's History Extra Podcast comes this discussion about Neanderthals. In an episode produced in collaboration with our colleag...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

Latest Blogwatch column

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My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 67 , April 2020) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Recalibrating affirmative action

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From The Glenn Show comes this video in which Professor Glenn Loury interviews Professor Peter Arcidiacono on affirmative action.
Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Wage and price controls in a pandemic

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If there is one thing we don't need in a pandemic it's wage and price controls. From the Cato Daily Podcast comes this discussion o...
Saturday, 12 September 2020

George Selgin on Average Inflation Targeting and "The Menace of Fiscal QE"

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From Macro Musings comes this video in which David Beckworth interviews George Selgin about the Fed’s new policy framework and Selgin's...
Monday, 7 September 2020

David Neumark - using minimum wages to fight inequality and poverty

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From the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine comes this video in which Professor David Neumark talks about u...
Sunday, 12 July 2020

The Theory of the Firm: An Overview of the Economic Mainstream, revised 11 July 2020

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In this overview we give a short survey of the way in which the theory of the firm has been formulated within the `mainstream' of econom...
Saturday, 11 July 2020

Marxism at the movies

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From the IEA comes this podcast on Marxism at the Movies . Complaints about left-wing bias in the movie industry are not new. You can fin...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Who was Ronald Coase? - with Cento Veljanovski

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From the IEA comes this video in which Syed Kamall interviews Cento Veljanovski about the work of Ronald Coase.  
Friday, 22 May 2020

Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories and Theories of the Firm and Production

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This essay provides introductions to five of the major topics to do with the history of the theory of production and the theory of the firm....
Sunday, 19 April 2020

Phllip W. Magness on the New York Times 1619 Project

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From ReasonTV . When The New York Times launched its 1619 Project last year, it sought to "reframe the country's history by placi...
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Saturday, 18 April 2020

Lives vs the economy

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From NPR 's Planet Money comes this podcast on Lives Vs. the Economy . Hosts Sarah Gonzalez and Kenny Malone interview Betsey Stevenson...
Friday, 17 April 2020

Kristian Niemietz talks about Socialism

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This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight talks to Kristian Niemietz (@k_niemietz). Kristian is Head of Political Economy at IEA London a...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

The neoclassical model under fire 1940-1970

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The second draft of a chapter which looks at attacks made on the neoclassical theory of production in the period 1940-1970 The neoclassic...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Coronavirus: a cost-benefit analysis of the economic shutdown

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From the Capitalisn't podcast comes this episode on the cost-benefit analysis of the coronavirus crisis in which Luigi Zinglas and Kat...
Saturday, 28 March 2020

Social Credit, again

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Thanks to a comment from Michael Reddell my attention has been drawn to the discussion of Socal Credit that appears in the report of the Ne...
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