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
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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
Lutz Kilian on OPEC
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in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, industrial organisation Tags: cartels
Passages of life
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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
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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
Top 10 Largest Companies by Market Cap (1979-2021)
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in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Trade creation and trade diversion for NZ lamb imports into the UK
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: free trade agreements, preferential trade agreements, trade creation, trade diversion
Milton Friedman Why free markets work
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: capitalism and freedom
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
Josh Wright | UCLA Law and Economics, Relational Contracts, and Antitrust
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm Tags: competition law
Why megaproject cost overruns?
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, public economics, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: megaprojects
Is Market Failure an argument against government? – David Friedman
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, property rights Tags: market failure
5 Disastrous Math Fails with Surprising Consequences
04 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, industrial organisation, transport 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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