Today’s guest is economic historian Gregory Clark, and our topic is England’s New Poor Law of 1834. Gregory and his co-author, Marianne E. Page, wrote a paper on the topic entitled “Welfare reform, 1834: Did the New Poor Law in England produce significant economic gains?” Spoiler alert: It didn’t. (more…)
Subscribe to Economics Detective Radio on iTunes, Android, or Stitcher.
The post Classical Economics and the New Poor Law with Gregory Clark appeared first on The Economics Detective.
Today’s guest is Mikayla Novak (Twitter, SSRN) of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University. Her work focuses on some innovative new and potential uses for blockchain technology.
As we all know at this point, the first use of blockchain technology was to create decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But a blockchain is a much more general technology than this: it is a decentralized ledger that is resistant to tampering by any one individual. As such, it is a technical innovation that can allow us to coordinate activities that a lack of trust may have prevented otherwise.
Mikayla discusses institutional cryptoeconomics, an emerging field of research centered on the ways blockchain technology can improve both private and public institutions.
Links
Mikayla’s Medium article on Crypto Fiscal Federalism discusses how blockchain could make the system of making government grants more transparent and efficient.
This article by Mikayla’s colleagues at RMIT gives a detailed and accessible introduction to institutional cryptoeconomics.
Subscribe to Economics Detective Radio on iTunes, Android, or Stitcher.
The post Institutional Cryptoeconomics with Mikayla Novak appeared first on The Economics Detective.
[Note: I was not compensated for this post. However, I do have a $100 USD referral code and I do get paid if you use it. Yay, discounts!]
I’ve had my ReMarkable tablet for over a year now and I can’t imagine life without it. I am constantly carrying it with me, pulling it out to jot down notes during meetings, or to read PDFs on the SkyTrain, or to sketch out ideas for one of my creative projects. I start many of my days by jotting down a to-do list on my ReMarkable. It has taken the place of the many disorganized notebooks and sheets of printer paper that were constantly cluttering up my life in The Before Time (more…)
The post Why my ReMarkable Tablet is my Favourite Device appeared first on The Economics Detective.