Surprise result in these #COVID19 times
18 May 2022 Leave a comment
in health economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Veteran lefty concedes that most fortunes are self-made
01 May 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
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
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
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
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
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)
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Milton Friedman Why free markets work
07 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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
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
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
Debating Income Inequality: What’s the Problem? What’s the Solution?
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
How Airlines Quietly Became Banks
16 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics
How Markets Work | Russ Roberts (2021)
04 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, survivor principle
The Economics of Inequality | John Cochrane
30 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
The 2012 Martin Feldstein Lecture: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, superstars, top 1%
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