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Marcelo Wallau - Meus olhos de ver o mundo...: A política do "atrasacionismo"

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Marcelo Wallau - Meus olhos de ver o mundo. Alma, vida e poesia, tempo e pessoas queridas! Jornadas de tantos suores e de tantas alegrias! Bem vindos ao meu fogão virtual. Aqui vou manter atualizado sobre minhas andanças, fotos e trabalhos novos que venho escrevendo. Convido todos a participar, deixar recados e mandarem e-mails se quiserem! Um grande abraço a todos e boa viagem por entre essas linhas. Quarta-feira, 27 de abril de 2011. A política do "atrasacionismo". Dos dois um: ou Livramento está com m...

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Farmer Hayek: Krugman and Friends Don't Get Uber

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Krugman and Friends Don't Get Uber. Krugman's recent blog post. You might not have thought that a taxi service would move onto center stage in our great political debates. But Uber actually is looking like a surprisingly important political issue. Why? The other is the company whose workers supposedly are free contractors, not employees, exempting the company from most of the regulations designed to protect employee interests. An...

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Farmer Hayek: April 2015

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Chipotle and GMOs: Irrational Fear or Genius Marketing? Recently Chipotle announced that its menu will now be entirely GMO free. Because they ostensibly don't believe U.S.-produced meat is good enough for their customers. Humans have been modifying the genes of our food via cross breeding for a very, very long time. We've simply found a better way to do it. The anti-GMO movement has created an extremely valuable market opportunity ...

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Farmer Hayek: May 2015

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Monday, May 25, 2015. Paul Krugman is Confused About the Theory of the Firm. Krugmans Memorial Day blog post. Shows his unfortunate misunderstanding of the difference between government bureaucracies and the managerial structures of private businesses. He goes as far to state that those who work for large private firms work under command-and-control regimes. Economics in TWO Lessons? Sunday, May 24, 2015. A Mercatus Center blog post. The total number of res...

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Farmer Hayek: The Importance of Applying Market Process Theory

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Monday, August 3, 2015. The Importance of Applying Market Process Theory. I came across an interesting post by Chris Dillow. On markets vs gov't direction of resources. He starts off by criticizing an article in the Telegraph about privatization as a solution to the tragedy of the commons. However, his own analysis of the market vs gov't trade-off lacks the important insights of market process theory. His discussion of the role of transactions costs. This a...

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Marcelo Wallau - Meus olhos de ver o mundo...: EM OUTRAS QUERÊNCIAS

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Marcelo Wallau - Meus olhos de ver o mundo. Alma, vida e poesia, tempo e pessoas queridas! Jornadas de tantos suores e de tantas alegrias! Bem vindos ao meu fogão virtual. Aqui vou manter atualizado sobre minhas andanças, fotos e trabalhos novos que venho escrevendo. Convido todos a participar, deixar recados e mandarem e-mails se quiserem! Um grande abraço a todos e boa viagem por entre essas linhas. Sexta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2010. Coloreou-se o céu em fim de tarde. O rubro se confunde com a estrada.

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Farmer Hayek: Does the US Have a "Cheap Food" Policy?

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Does the US Have a "Cheap Food" Policy? It's often said, in defense of payments to ag producers, that these subsidies constitute a "cheap food" policy. Advocates of the policy contend that the subsidies incentivize increased production such that food prices fall. It's a win-win: producers benefit directly from the subsidy and consumers (especially the poor) benefit from reduced prices at the grocery store. Miller and Coble go on to...

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Farmer Hayek: Blackboard Theory Versus the Reality of Markets

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Blackboard Theory Versus the Reality of Markets. Mark Thoma's recent article. As Farmer Hayek readers might expect, I didn't find his arguments terribly convincing. First, this is a classic case of the Nirvana fallacy. Another way to look at this issue is to consider what Ronald Coase called " blackboard theory. In his Nobel Prize address. Or Pete Boettke's longer article here. For instance, the presence of asymmetric information bet...

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Farmer Hayek: Noah Smith and the Panglossian Fallacy

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Free-Market Agricultural and Applied Economics. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Noah Smith and the Panglossian Fallacy. Over the past few months, I've spent some time pushing back against what I believe are poor arguments made by professional economists who oppose market direction of resources. The "arguments" I want to examine this time aren't really arguments. They're really just bald assertions with nothing to back them up. I suppose this makes my job easy, so I'll try to be brief. This is a recurring theme...