Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a
minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but …

This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, ie, upward sloping
demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two …

This book explores the development of hybrid corn, the history of eugenics, human genetics,
the nature-nurture debate, the origins of the Marxian concept of proletarian science, the shift …

This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, ie, upward sloping
demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two …

Scientific knowledge can be distilled into a set of laws that are sufficiently general and robust
to be useful in describing and predicting behaviour–the behaviour of physical objects (the …

A recent critique of the claim, first published in Paul Samuelson's economics textbook (1961,
444 n, 448 n), that the potato was a Giffen good during the nineteenth-century Irish famine …

Can criminal laws improve existing black markets? An unexamined category of laws may
actually make black markets more efficient. Laws that criminalize the sale of fake cocaine …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an estimate of the demand and supply in the
housing market in Colombia in a period of high real estate valuation (2005-2016). On the …

Alfred Marshall's introduction of the “Giffen paradox” has kept the minds of many economists
occupied for more than a century, as has the more general issue of the possibility of an …

Scholars have long debated whether there was enough food in Ireland to feed the
population during the Great Irish Famine; there has been less detailed examination of high …