David Friedman “Global Warming, Population, and the Problem with Externality Arguments”

28 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: ,

Hayek Lecture 2017: “Is the World Over or Underpopulated, and How Would We Know?”

26 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, environmental economics, population economics Tags:

Do Kiwis who move to Australia still raise the IQs of both countries?

24 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand

If immigration lowers wages in New Zealand, political parties should be cheering every New Zealander who leaves because their emigration will raise wages here!? But none of them do that. They welcome returning New Zealanders.

Source: Immigration Economics: A Review David Card and Giovanni Peri, April, 2016.

The robots didn’t come for the bank tellers

24 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags:

Case against @OwenJones84 case for socialism

23 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, industrial organisation, television Tags: ,

british disease

Raw and adjusted gender wage gaps

22 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags:

All you need to know about carbon tax pricing from @RichardTol

21 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, public economics

Source: Tol, Richard S J (2017) The structure of the climate debate. Energy Policy, 104. pp. 431-438.

Anthony Downs explains triple convergence of peak hour traffic congestion

19 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, environmental economics, transport economics

Source: Traffic: Why It’s Getting Worse, What Government Can Do
Anthony Downs Thursday, January 1, 2004

And they say the poor are getting poorer

17 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

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Brexit: even a worst-case scenario is not so bad

16 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, international economics Tags: , , ,

The ever-changing indictment against capitalism

16 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, development economics, economic history

Source: http://reason.com/archives/2007/09/18/creative-destruction-vs-the-ne/1

Why the onrush of unconscious bias when women work that 40th hour

15 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - USA

Source: Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2016, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There is a message in here somewhere

12 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economics of regulation, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: ,

Why the explosion in unconscious bias at age 29? Hard to judge age even by decade, but we men, misogynist bastards all, can unconsciously spot every woman aged 29+ and discriminate against them more!

11 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

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A powerful antidote to unconscious bias

05 Nov 2017 Leave a comment

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