Richard Posner
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: useful idiots
Do female board members matter? Lurking variables change everything @women_nz
10 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis, gender wage gap
A joke lost on @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @jeremycorbyn
09 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: distributive justice, envy, regressive left, social justice, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%
Rent Control Does Not Make Housing More Affordable
09 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, rent control, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
David Friedman at Libertopia 2010 on Future Imperfect
08 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights
Top 15 Best Global Brands Ranking (2000-2018)
06 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
David Friedman | Lessons from Legal Systems Different From Ours | VISION WEEKEND 2019
05 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: anarchocapitalism
Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
03 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: fall of communism
Andolfatto and McDonald (1996) on the cycle is the trend
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, real business cycles, technology diffusion
.@ProfDBernstein on Posner on racial discrimination by minority businesses in hiring
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: affirmative action, job search, labour market search, racial discrimination
Eugene Fama on share market bubbles
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, pessimism bias, rational expectations
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