Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
A chinese millionaire went broke after he got religion. Business partners, suppliers and customers didn’t trust him anymore.
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: bribery and corruption
Do bosses take your labour surplus with them when they die? More on the rise of a working rich @AOC @BernieSanders
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value, top 1%
from http://www.ericzwick.com/capitalists/capitalists.pdf
Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,
The economics of @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn @NZGreens @oxfam @Greenpeace
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
The Facebook Dilemma: Brad Parscale – Trump’s digital guru
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, entrepreneurship, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election
What did millionaire @SenSanders build from scratch?
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: superstars, The Great Enrichment, top 1%
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Tirole on the difficulties of network and utility regulation. Tradeoff between high cost, low profit firms v. low cost, high profit firms
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Why ‘Sign in With Apple’ Beats Passwords and Facebook | @WSJ
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction
Debunking the myths of “buying local” food policies”
15 Oct 2019 1 Comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, health economics, international economics Tags: food snobs, pessimism bias
Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, market efficiency, survivor principle, transport economics, war and peace Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
How to eliminate the gender wage gap in one easy step! Marry down? @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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