
19th century Bank of England was well on to stigma effects in a banking crisis
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, fisheries economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, bank runs, banking crises, banking panics, lender of last resort, monetary policy, screening

Nobel Symposium Kenneth Rogoff Indebtedness of governments, firms, and households
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The real reason there aren’t more female scientists | FACTUAL FEMINIST
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, occupational segregation, reversing gender gap
Bryan Caplan The case against education
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signaling
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars
Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law






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