
Deirdre McCloskey on the false consciousness of the working class in the Age of Enrichment
25 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

This is how babies used to fly on airplanes
25 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, technological progress Tags: health and safety, safety regulation, Transport safety
The relative importance of capitalism and the British welfare state in abolishing destitution
24 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

HT: Andrew Newell
An organ shortage kills 30 Americans every day. Is it time to pay donors? – The Washington Post
24 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, health economics Tags: organ donation

via An organ shortage kills 30 Americans every day. Is it time to pay donors? – The Washington Post.
Deirdre McCloskey on Piketty’s definition of wealth in the Age of Human Capital
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

Have changing household composition and retirement caused the decline in median household income? » AEI
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: poverty and inequality
What does it mean to be worse off now than in 1979?
22 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, politics - USA Tags: poverty and inequality, The Great Enrichment
Does the chart say that the basket of goods you could buy in 1979, in quantity and quality, was better than now? Every technological upgrade and new product has passed everyone by but the rich?
It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, election campaigns, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics, technological progress Tags: free trade, globalisation, market augmenting governments

Politicians can’t be heroes any more. Instead, they have to operate within the tightly drawn tramlines of the global economy.
This is true for those on the left and the right, but the pressure that this places on countries to adopt a low-tax, light-regulation regime is something with which the right is far more comfortable.
via It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator.
Deirdre McCloskey has a 55-page review essay on Piketty
21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, Piketty
You will find it here (pdf), forthcoming in the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics.
via Deirdre McCloskey has a 55-page review essay on Piketty.
Intergenerational mobility in 1 chart
20 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Rawls and Nozick Tags: intergenerational mobility






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