Source: Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor? | Hoover Institution
If Economists Are So Smart, Why Is Africa So Poor?
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in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles
Biggest stockmarket falls in economic history
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in economic history, financial economics Tags: sharemarket crashes
Biggest stockmarket falls in economic history economist.com/blogs/graphicd… http://t.co/Ja79M23uzf—
Charles Read (@EconCharlesRead) August 24, 2015
The Moynihan Report revisited
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in economic history, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of families, marriage and divorce, Moynihan report, single mothers, single parents
The decline of the Republican Party in California
22 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, California, voted demographics
California: the Republican party's lost state econ.st/1KfIJK0 http://t.co/vkdO87BfPE—
The Economist (@ECONdailycharts) September 17, 2015
NZ Home ownership, 1916–2013
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in economic history, politics - New Zealand, urban economics Tags: homeownership, housing affordability
Mises on entrepreneurs and consumer sovereignty
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, industrial organisation, Ludwig von Mises, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, consumer sovereignty, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, market selection, The meaning of competition
Stigler on economics as a big tent @RusselNorman @NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ @Mark_J_Perry
21 Sep 2015 1 Comment
A history of US growth per capita
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in economic growth, economic history, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: prosperity and depression
Time to replace eagle with unicorn? The US as a high growth startup. @JimPethokoukis goo.gl/D4MK9x http://t.co/6WRB7nvUTp—
AEIdeas Blog (@AEIdeas) September 03, 2015
The territorial evolution of #Germany from 1867
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in economic history, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, Germany, World War I, World War II
How is peak oil going?
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: commodity prices, doomsday prophecies, peak oil
Are we really running out of oil? As it turns out, we're discovering more every year. buff.ly/1LhV947 http://t.co/fdxxk5fNpi—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 19, 2015
Hans Rosling’s "Don’t Panic – The Truth About Population"
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, population economics Tags: endogenous growth theory, population bomb, The Great Fact
How many colonies did each European country have?
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, British imperialism, colonialism
A map of Europe based on how many colonies each country had i100.io/SpgD1re http://t.co/Atj5Td1dHN—
i100 (@thei100) July 04, 2015
Cancer survival rates in the UK
20 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: British economy, British history, cancer survival rates, life expectancies, National Health Service, The Great Escape
https://twitter.com/ONS/status/621975325405282304/photo/1
Breast cancer mortality has fallen substantially ow.ly/PJmzJ http://t.co/85eMjk6chD—
(@ONS) July 17, 2015
Colorectal cancer has increased more among males than females ow.ly/PJm19 http://t.co/lxbSYV9CmH—
(@ONS) July 17, 2015
CORRECTION: Lung cancer risen for females and fallen for males ow.ly/PJnjC http://t.co/E78ztvXzCd—
(@ONS) July 17, 2015
Sharp increase in prostate cancer since the 1990s ow.ly/PJlKO http://t.co/mR1L4ojh87—
(@ONS) July 17, 2015
Lung cancer more common among females than males ow.ly/PJlXj http://t.co/IjOfEyejMT—
(@ONS) July 17, 2015
@RichardvReeves Why did women get a pass on the great wage stagnation and exploitation by the top 1%?
19 Sep 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, gender wage gap, male labour force participation, middle class stagnation, middle-class stand nation, wage stagnation
Few labour markets statistics make much sense unless broken down by gender.
Women working full-time, year-round jobs earned 78.6% of what similar men did in 2014 on.wsj.com/1KlsIC8 http://t.co/amouJSkPMr—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) September 19, 2015
Wages growth is no exception with female wages growth quite good for a long period of time after the 1970s – a period in which male earnings stagnated.
The beginning of male wage stagnation seemed to coincide with the closing of the gender wage gap.
U.S. wage growth doesn't look as weak when you account for benefit costs covered by employers on.wsj.com/1JJ2EmV http://t.co/s0tJutTjBy—
Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) July 06, 2015
Presumably if men were previously profiting from patriarchy, that should have some implications for future wage growth and promotions for men as women catch up.
Presumably if men were previously profiting from patriarchy, that should have some implications for future wage growth for men as women catch up. Men lost the wage premium they previously earned from the sex discrimination directly in hiring, wage setting and promotions and investing in more education because they expected to be discriminated favourably at the expense of women.
Not surprisingly the convergence in the male-female wage ratios started in the 1970s which was the decade that male wage stagnation started.
The gender wage gap started converging again also pretty much in lockstep with the top 1% starting to grab higher and higher proportions of income.
Source: Alvaredo, Facundo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, The World Top Incomes Database.
The biggest #gendergap of them all
19 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, health economics, labour economics Tags: female life expectancy, gender gap, life expectancies, male life expectancy, reversing gender gap
https://twitter.com/ONS/status/641642361664237569/photo/1
Explore the changing gap between male & female life expectancy over time ow.ly/RXWfC http://t.co/OjZuSlcmOI—
(@ONS) September 09, 2015
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