
Only rational expectations macroeconomics can explain self-fulfilling crises
01 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: Euroland, rational expectations, sovereign defaults

Dr. King will always be right
31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination

#fakenews from @AOC @SenWarren @BernieSanders
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, top 1%

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



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