Elvis Costello & The Attractions – The Only Flame In Town
25 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, Music Tags: Elvis Costello
More on the top 1% giving women a pass on the great wage stagnation
23 May 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, middle class stagnation, reversing gender gap, wage stagnation
Source: Read Online — Visualizing Economics.
Why were 1970s fashions just so bad, so loud?
23 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: fashions, The Great Enrichment
My explanation is the rapid income growth in the 1950s and 60s caught fashion designers short.
Comparing different income growth series 1900-2010 bit.ly/195NbKb http://t.co/9Uazhmayd4—
Catherine Mulbrandon (@VisualEcon) August 18, 2014
Up until the 1970s, and the swinging 60s in London where a tastes of that, clothing design for the masses is very much functional. It took 10 to 15 years for the fashion designers to work out how to respond to this sudden increase in demand for clothing as an expression of individual identity.
By the 1980s and 1990s, people were able to dress with distinction in finely cut clothing without the need to be gauche and loud.
Jeff Spicoli, ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ (1982)
22 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, movies Tags: marijuana decriminalisation, Sean Penn
The ups and down of Britney as a baby name
21 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: baby names
Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight
20 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election
Darwin awards near misses
20 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, economics of media and culture
HT: Des Rowe
Dr Mark Pennington – ‘Robust Political Economy’
20 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, industrial organisation, liberalism Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
The Big Lebowski – Ashes Scene
19 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, movies Tags: The Big Lebowski
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