Why Don’t Humans Ride Zebras?
28 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: agricultural economics, domestication
Philippe Aghion: “Innovation will relocate old jobs to new jobs” – “Safety Last” pt. 1
27 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: automation
Thomas Sowell on the Vulgar Pride of Intellectuals
27 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, labour economics Tags: Thomas Sowell
The Numbers Game: How’s The Middle Class Doing
27 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history
21 year-old LBJ forbad his Mexican students from speaking Spanish at school. He knew that learning English was central to their chances of escaping poverty
25 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education
My first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Tex., in a small Mexican-American school. Few of them could speak English, and I couldn’t speak much Spanish. My students were poor and they often came to class without breakfast, hungry. They knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. They never seemed to know why people disliked them. But they knew it was so, because I saw it in their eyes. I often walked home late in the afternoon, after the classes were finished, wishing there was more that I could do. But all I knew was to teach them the little that I knew, hoping that it might help them against the hardships that lay ahead. Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. I never thought then, in 1928, that I would be standing here in 1965. It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students and to help people like them all over this country.
From Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise
March 15, 1965
History According to Sociology Professors
25 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: sociology, The Great Enrichment
Why Avocados Shouldn’t Exist
24 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in economic history Tags: agricultural economics, natural selection
Is there a Natural Resource Curse?
24 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics Tags: resource curse
Steven Pinker Wants Enlightenment Now!
23 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history Tags: Age of Enlightenment, pessimism bias, political correctness, Steven Pinker, The Great Enrichment
Mao and the Great Leap Forward
23 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, Marxist economics
Speaking of creative destruction
23 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle
LBJ: From Senate Majority Leader to President, 1958-1964
22 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: LBJ
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