Tag: Learn Liberty

Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers & Baptists

August 5, 2013

Bruce Yandle’s “bootleggers & Baptists” model of political coalition formation is one of the most useful models in the political economy of regulation (and one that both Mike and I employ frequently, as seen by our many posts using the model). Here’s a great new Learn Liberty video featuring Bruce himself describing how coalitions of … More Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers & Baptists

Economists and Philosophers on Value

March 20, 2012

Lynne Kiesling Got two spare minutes and want to spend it enriching yourself? Then watch this great Learn Liberty video from Aeon Skoble. Aeon’s a philosopher who also reads a lot of economics, so he’s in a distinctive position to make this important point — both economists and philosophers use the word “value”, but we … More Economists and Philosophers on Value