Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
07 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, regressive left
When Did Modern Behavior Evolve?
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: evolutionary psychology
Roland Fryer: Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination
03 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination
Alfred Marshall wrote on agglomeration economies as long ago as 1890
02 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
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Growing up in the crack cocaine epidemic led to parents encouraging ways of talking and acting by inner-city kids; pure survival skills known as street capital
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA
From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00181-016-1160-y and https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/working-papers/2014-working-papers/wp-1302r-human-capital-in-the-inner-city
Did the same university suspend anti-war and BDS protesters?
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, politics - Australia Tags: China, regressive left
Kaupapa Māori indigenous knowledge-based econometrics is surprisingly sophisticated for pre-Age of Enlightenment intuitive knowledge that also thought the earth was flat! Academic rent seeking/tokenism to win research grants?
28 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, health economics, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking
… (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.
I tuhi a Rōpiha i ētahi pūrongo i ‘Te Ao Hou’, ā, i āwhina atu hoki ia ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa a te maheni nei i ōna tau tuatahi (TTR 2000:188). / Rōpiha wrote articles for ‘Te Ao Hou’, and he also helped guide the magazine’s policies in its early years.
kaupapa Māori
1. Māori approach, Māori topic, Māori customary practice, Māori institution, Māori agenda, Māori principles, Māori ideology – a philosophical doctrine, incorporating the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of Māori society.
The rise and fall of a famous natural experiment that was supposed to rescue econometrics as a career
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
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McCloskey on The New Economic History at Chicago in the 1970s
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The moral roots of liberals and conservatives – Jonathan Haidt
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, political psychology
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 6 – What’s Wrong with our Schools
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, television, unemployment, unions Tags: chartered schools
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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