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Econ 101 Ignores 50 Years of Economic Science
Insights from Harold Demsetz
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Brian Albrecht
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Planned Obsolescence
One thing that you will hear a lot of non-economists talk about is the idea of planned obsolescence. This is the idea that companies deliberately design…
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Josh Hendrickson
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David Glasner | Ralph Hawtrey and Price Theory vs. Microfoundations in Macro
Listen now (69 mins) | Episode 3 of the Economic Forces Podcast
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Economic Forces
What is a Barrier to Entry?
No one agrees. That's not great.
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Brian Albrecht
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Best of Economic Forces: 2023 Edition
Thanks for reading!
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Brian Albrecht
Empirical Price Theory
It's about the world, not the model
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Brian Albrecht
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Are Transaction Costs just Costs?
A Tribute to Yoram Barzel (1931-2022)
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Brian Albrecht
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Is Everything Efficient?
Some thoughts on the misconceptions associated with efficiency
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Josh Hendrickson
4
Economics and the Law
Lessons from a property rights perspective
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Josh Hendrickson
You Found a Market Failure. So What?
Inefficiencies are everywhere. Can you fix it at lower cost?
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Brian Albrecht
Why Armen Alchian is the GOAT 🐐
Micro, Macro, Theory, Empirics, Researcher, Teacher. Alchian did it all.
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Brian Albrecht
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Not Exactly a Nobel for Price Theory
Connecting natural experiments and price theory
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Brian Albrecht
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