
Richard Posner on public intellectuals
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: fall of communism, useful idiots

Why ‘Free College’ Is a Terrible Idea
24 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: adverse selection, signalling
The Danes are awash in data. Shed a tear for your own job security if there is a death in the CEO’s family.
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Jennifer Doleac on crime
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Blind audition study: Truth or myth? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of information, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: gender wage gap
Attention anti-science left @NZGreens (but not @Greens, who praised vaccines as the greatest public health intervention ever)
21 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines

A flaw common to many conspiracy theories
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 9/11, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, Iraq war

Shame on @greenpeace
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of information, environmental economics, growth disasters, health economics Tags: regressive left, The Great Escape

Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
Ravallion on pilot bias or randomisters scaling up in poor, corrupt countries after succcesfully working with squeaky clean NGOs
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: bribery and corruption, The fatal conceit

I have a southern accent because of English ancestors
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages



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