Equities now offering the highest yield premium over bonds since the 1940s
02 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
The history of U.S. state / county boundaries, 1629-2000
01 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics Tags: maps
Poverty in America after 20 years of welfare reform
01 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
Source: Did Welfare Reform Increase Extreme Poverty in the United States?
Source: Did Welfare Reform Increase Extreme Poverty in the United States?
On choosing the Bourgeois Deal behind the veil of ignorance
29 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, Rawls and Nozick Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, social contract, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, veil of ignorance
Source: Deirdre McCloskey: editorials: Review of Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets , New York: Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Pp. 244 +viii. Index. by Deirdre McCloskey August 1, 2012. Shorter version published in the Claremont Review of Books XII(4), Fall 2012.
Should female athletes be paid the same? A labour theory of value approach
28 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
Down and out in America after 20 years of welfare reform
28 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, welfare reform Tags: 1996 U.S. welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty
Why you shouldn’t vote for Jeremy Corbyn | Nick Cohen
27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: British politics
Poverty Has Declined a Lot Over the Past 30 Years in the USA
27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
Source: Poverty Has Declined a Lot Over the Past 30 Years | Mother Jones from Poverty After Welfare Reform | Manhattan Institute.
Why Didn’t Russia Ever Make It to the Moon?
27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: moon, space
Creative destruction in print media revenue and employment
26 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Paris Delivered (1944)
26 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: France, Paris, World War II
Homelessness fell under @NZNationalParty? @PhilTwyford @metiria @cjsbishop
26 Aug 2016 2 Comments
in applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: homelessness, neoliberalism, social insurance, vast right-wing conspiracy, welfare state
People living rough doubled under Labour! Fell under the National Party led government despite the global financial crisis and the return of neoliberal oppression.
Source: 24 August 2016, Most homeless people working or studying, News, University of Otago, New Zealand, table 4.
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