Lee Ohanian on the Importance of Immigration
06 May 2022 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of immigration
Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
01 May 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Why American Gas Stations Are Turning Into Supermarkets – Cheddar Explains
28 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship
The power of tax smoothing
25 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economic growth, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public economics
Our Future Together: How Immigrants Will Reshape Our Workforce
20 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of immigration
If skilled labour is being kept out of the workplace for unreasonable reasons then that’s an opportunity for someone else to gain that labour on the cheap. Which is exactly what Dame Steve Shirley did
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, unintended consequences
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

Addressing economic disparity challenges in NZ
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: child poverty, family poverty
But @Facebook is decried as a monopoly!?
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: competition and monopoly, competition law, creative destruction

The Rise and Fall of the TV Dinner – Cheddar Explains
07 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health economics
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: regressive left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings



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