Interview with Charles Murray (March 16, 2020)
01 Oct 2020 2 Comments
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology
Little wonder @women_nz ignores world’s top female economist
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, regressive left
100% of NZ gender wage gap for high earners is unexplained
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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The Social Leap | Robert Wright & William von Hippel [The Wright Show]
28 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, law and economics, property rights Tags: evolutionary psychology
The Gaelic Language | David Mitchell’s SoapBox
27 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, politics - New Zealand Tags: economics of languages, network goods
Popper on the regressive left @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
27 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
Gender wage gap
26 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Standards of Spelling | David Mitchell’s SoapBox
25 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Why Do You Always Have Room for Dessert?
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics Tags: evolutionary psychology
Judge Frank Easterbrook on antitrust law history
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner, Ronald Coase, Ronald Coase, survivor principle Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, patents and copyright, The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, unintended consequences
Angus Deaton: Epidemiology, randomised trials, and the search for what works in economic development
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: philosophy of science, The fatal conceit
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation
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