
From The Blank Slate
10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, law and economics, Marxist economics, property rights Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce

Lost on the woke and the anti-science @Greens @NZGreens @greenpeace
09 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: Anti-Science left, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left

My favourite Jewish proverb
08 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture

More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises – Steven E. Landsburg
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, economics of religion, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Only 2 general purpose technologies in the 20th century?
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, general purpose technologies

From Charles Murray’s Human Diversity
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left

The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
So true
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Dunning-Kruger effect, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left




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