Richard Epstein |2003 Reflects on Anti-Discrimination Laws Since His Book Forbidden Grounds
01 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Richard Epstein Tags: antidiscrimination laws, employment law, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
By David E. Bernstein from the Boundaries of Antidiscrimination laws
29 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti-Discrimination Laws
28 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
26 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform
Richard Epstein presents “The Anti-discrimination Juggernaut” – David C. Baum Lecture, April 2019
21 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of regulation, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
The Numbers Game: The Paradox of Household Income
19 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
The White Ignorance of Milton Friedman
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, Milton Friedman
White people have the luxury of not thinking about race if they don’t want to. Marginalized people, on the other hand, are forced to think about their own oppression all the time if they want to get by in the world. One way to think about this luxury is what philosopher Charles Mills calls “white ignorance.” In scholarship, one way the white ignorance is displayed is by white scholars, whom Critical Race Theorist Richard Delgado called “imperial scholars,” who ignore the scholarship of people of color. The poster child for white ignorance may well be Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman was one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century. The leading light of the “Chicago School of Economics,” the most influential economics department in the world, Nobel prize-winner in Economics in 1976. If there were an All-Star team of economists, Friedman would be in the…
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LSE Sociology: Are There Any Right-Wing Sociologists? (Maybe they mostly work in the criminology field!)
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
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Affirmative Action Hurts Minorities
17 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
What drives the gender wage gap
16 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Jordan Peterson – why few women are in positions of power
15 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Debunking Economic Myths | Mark Perry
13 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: free trade, gender wage gap
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