Putterman-Weil Data Bryan Caplan By Bryan Caplan, Feb 12 2016 SHARE POST: With the authors’ kind permission, here is Putterman and Weil’s data in Excel format.
Feb 13 2016 Institutional Economics Tim Besley on the Importance of Political Economy ... Emily Skarbek Tim Besley's inaugural lecture as the W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at LSE can best be summed up as drawing attention to the rise and importance of political economy for understanding questions of economic development. A brief summary is below with the full audio podcast available here. A major ch... 5 Read More
Feb 12 2016 Cost-benefit Analysis Play the Hand You're Dealt David Henderson I have a few mottos in life. The title of this post is one of them, and it has served me well. It sounds obvious. What other kind of hand could you play? None. But what you can do is complain about the hand you're dealt. And that normally does either zero good or negative good, i.e., bad. The bad part is that it can di... 19 Read More
Feb 12 2016 Economic Growth Putterman-Weil Data Bryan Caplan With the authors' kind permission, here is Putterman and Weil's data in Excel format. 0 Read More