Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Only 2 general purpose technologies in the 20th century?
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, general purpose technologies

The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
Horses and mules held their own for decades against tractors
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle
Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
@ReserveBankofNZ views on Maori values and the long term view has poor anthropological support?!
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: monetary policy

Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Aaron Wildavsky: Risk and Liberty
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health and safety, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice
Asymmetric Information and Used Cars
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information
Lucas and Sargent (1979) on propagation in equilibrium business cycle models
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

Creative destruction
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, India





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