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Economics for children – my book Seeing the Invisible now on Kindle

Link here. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t allow free supply of books on Kindle, but do download the free version from here.  

India’s RACE TO THE BOTTOM – dismal performance in basic human liberties

I posted this extract widely on the internet a moment ago. The latest 2018 Human Freedom Index. Source. Surely India made a big mistake fighting for independence – only to hand over power to the socialists. It has been a RACE TO THE BOTTOM. The worst part is that most “educated” Indians simply don’t care. […]

Rajnish Rai – a hero police officer

Although there are only a very few of them, I have come across some really good police officers in India. My most intense interaction was with Ajit Das, a promotee IPS officer who was my Superintendent of Police when I was DC Barpeta. He was man of extraordinary integrity and concern for the rule of […]

This FIVE MINUTE video will convince you about Modi’s DIRECT COMPLICITY in GENOCIDE and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

After coming upon this (see my FB post) I decided to spend some time to bring together the evidence of Modi’s murderous life history IN HIS OWN WORDS. The fact that evidence about his guilt is overwhelming is something I’ve commented on at length on this blog. But now I have learnt to do some […]

India must bring Modi to book. He even CONFESSED publicly to mass murder, and the world is quiet.

Hitler never directly killed anyone. But does anyone ever doubt that he got 7 million jews killed? Why, then, do people doubt Modi’s role despite OVERWHELMING evidence of his guilt? Someone wrote to me that ” Until 2 years back I was not much convinced about the role of the Man “. He is convinced now […]

Legalize Drugs Now! – a 2006 essay by Walter Block

This is really good. Legalize Drugs Now! An Analysis of the Benefits of Legalized Drugs (with Meaghan Cussen) From American Journal of Economics and Sociology 59, no. 3 (2000): 525–36. Meaghan Cussen graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., U.S.A. in 1998 and wrote this paper with Dr. Walter Block while under his instruction […]

Ronald Coase on JS Mill’s false doctrine of “natural monopoly”

This is a brilliant chat between Posner and Coase. As part of it it he discusses the economics of utilities and demonstrates why competition is so essential in these areas. I’ve extracted Coase’s insights into monopolies – particularly in relation to utilities. I admire Coase’s empirical approach. This turns out to be much better in many […]

Ronald Coase on George Stigler’s Coase Theorem

In this I have extracted from the 1959 FCC paper which started off the “Coase Theorem”, and made a video compiling sections from different videos on which Coase himself speaks on the subject. Time permitting, I’ll add Coase’s further talks/ writings on this topic: Video TEXT FROM THE FCC PAPER: Let us start our analysis […]

Collection of Coase’s talks on Youtube

We are fortunate to have Coase’s talks on the internet. I’m compiling a few here for ease of access: Ronald H. Coase: On Economics – See my post here. Ronald Coase: Centennial Coase Lecture Markets, Firms and Property Rights – Ronald Coase A conversation with Ronald H. Coase (with Richard Posner) How China Became Capitalist: […]

In which Ronald Coase clarified that town planning zones can be justified – but in a very few cases

This is a very important section of Coase’s 1959 article, The Federal Communications Commission. == The fact that actions might have harmful effects on others has been shown to be no obstacle to the introduction of property rights. But it was possible to reach this unequivocal result because the conflicts of interest were between individuals. […]