Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Who to cancel next?
06 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Still more on economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: female labour supply, marriage and divorce

Biggest gender gap of all; equivalent to 6-12 months extra schooling
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

The discovery of penicillin
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, health economics

Economics of the City, Edward Glaeser
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics
Why are SJWs more likely to be female? Jordan Peterson
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? | Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani [The Glenn Show]
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The fatal conceit
“In Pursuit of Happiness” by Angus Deaton
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Escape
The Prince | Machiavelli
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, Public Choice
The test of science
28 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: philosophy of science
More gender gaps
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left

Lost on the woke
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, history of economic thought, Karl Popper, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left

Anti-science @Greenpeace @NZGreens @Greens @AOC @BernieSanders
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, financial economics, global warming, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: Anti-Science left, conjecture and refutation, offsetting behaviour, philosophy of science, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences, useful idiots



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