
Tirole on the economics of crises
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, development economics, economics of information, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, market efficiency, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bank panics

SNL destroys @SenWarren’s Medicare-for-all
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax
Which billionaires will the @BernieSanders @SenWarren wealth tax abolish?
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom, envy, superstars, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax

Duflo and Banerje are a cross between Trump and crazy Bernie on economic populism
31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-foreign bias, economics of immigration, free trade
O-Ring Model
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, endogenous growth theory, envy, superstars, top 1%, wealth taxes

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

James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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,





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