
Teenagers respond in sophisticated ways to long-term incentives
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: College premium, graduate premium

Why Don’t People Duel Anymore
18 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics Tags: dueling, signalling
Zilibotti on Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory
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in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory

David Levine on psychology and economics
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, economics of information Tags: methodology of economics

#OTD 1967
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, environmental economics Tags: pessimism bias, prophets of doom

Are passwords obsolete? Thoughts from a famous fraudster | Frank W. Abagnale
16 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics
The Truth Cannot be Sexist – Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap, moral psychology
Steven Pinker on Gender Pronouns
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages, political correctness, regressive left
When the lab rats are smarter
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, econometerics, economics of information, experimental economics, industrial organisation Tags: The fatal conceit

Steven Pinker: Blank Slate
10 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, health economics, law and economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, moral psychology





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