Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
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in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
The Sentinelese: The Tribe Who Kill All Outsiders
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4 Ways to Uncover Ancient Earthquakes
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Why Are Puppy Eyes So Irresistible?
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in economics of education Tags: dogs
Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality | Conversations with Tyler
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in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: envy, top 1%
We met the world’s first domesticated foxes
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The Social Contagion Of Mental Disorders
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Like immigrants, aboriginals’ success may be enhanced by the acquisition of skills and traits of the “majority” culture in which they reside
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From a review of The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World Ran Abramitzky
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From https://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/view/1453
“The Mystery of the Kibbutz explores the history of the kibbutz movement and its vision of economic equality, how it thrived despite inherent economic contradictions, and why it eventually declined. He focuses on three challenges in particular: first, the free rider problem, that there is no benefit for working harder when you get the same salary or personal economic benefits; second, adverse selection – that such a social system would tend to attract people who would not be as successful in a capitalist market; or the inverse, a brain drain, that the smartest people or those who could find success outside the kibbutz would tend to leave. Finally, the question of human capital investment: that there would be a tendency to underinvest in human capital, in other words that there would be a lack of incentive for young people to study or work hard because in the end as kibbutz members they can depend on equal income no matter what their contribution is.”
Handouts for the well to do of tommorow
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in economics of education, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: College premium, education premium, regressive left
Map projections
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Addressing economic disparity challenges in NZ
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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