Saturday, 18 February 2017

Notes on "Oil Monopoly and the Climate" (by Hassler, John; Krusell, Per; Olovsson, Conny)

Oil Monopoly and the Climate

Hassler, John ; Krusell, Per ; Olovsson, Conny

American Economic Review, 2010, Vol.100(2), pp.460-464 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Saturday, 11 February 2017

Notes on "The liberty of the moderns: Market freedom and democracy within the EU" (Bellamy, RP)

The liberty of the moderns: Market freedom and democracy within the EU 
Bellamy, RP 
Global Constitutionalism , 1 (1) 141 - 172. (2012) 
Cambridge University Press 2012-03

though contemporary representative democracies are liberal-democratic, with the ancient liberty of direct collective political participation transformed by the modern liberties of freedom of choice, the exercise of autonomous judgement about how to lead one’s life, and the separation of public and private, their practices are shaped by cultural bonds

Saturday, 4 February 2017

Notes on "Choice Complexity and Market Competition" (by Spiegler, R)

Choice Complexity and Market Competition "
Spiegler, R 
Annual Review of Economics , 8 (2016) 2016-10

Choice complexity can be captured by an incomplete comparability relation over the (labels of) available market alternatives
highly non-linear price plans
increase the competitiveness of the market,  firms tend to intensify their equilibrium attempts to increase complexity