Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism
20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape
#COVID19
18 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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Tyler Cowen on the social and political implications of #COVID19
11 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
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Central planners forget yet another essential service #COVID19 #Hayekianknowledgeproblem
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Another reversing gender gap
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Stephen Pinker on gender equity
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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A 10% rise in benefits induces a 3% to 4% increase in the time injured workers take to return to work
10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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From https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1184&context=faculty-publications
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
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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