Australian graduate premium
24 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: Australia, graduate premium
How does Prescott react to the criticism that there is a lack of available supporting evidence of strong intertemporal labour substitution effects?
18 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
Bryan Caplan – Poverty: Who Is To Blame
18 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
Your work on the US found that productivity shocks explain most of the cyclical fluctuations the economy has experienced. Does this finding have any bearing on the nature of public policy?
17 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics
Keep the dream alive
17 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, Marxist economics Tags: political correctness, regressive left, virtue signalling
Alan Manning “Monopsony and the wage effects of migration”
12 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of immigration, monopsony
08 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, health economics, labour economics, labour supply Tags: health insurance
The World’s Deadliest Construction Projects
06 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in labour economics, occupational choice, health and safety, economic history
06 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health and safety, labour economics
Walter Block on sex Discrimination
04 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
04 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
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
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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