Interview with Charles Murray (March 16, 2020)
01 Oct 2020 2 Comments
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology
Little wonder @women_nz ignores world’s top female economist
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, regressive left
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Having Children in Poverty: Kathryn Edin
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economic of fertility, family poverty, marriage and divorce
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
28 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: creative destruction, endogenous growth theory
Gender wage gap
26 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Economic Reform in New Zealand | Ruth Richardson
23 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: creative destruction, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation
How do B- students keep up with pace of medical school course, much less pass exams?
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Dominion Post 19 September 2020, p. A7
Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
18 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
The withering away of the proletariat @AOC @BernieSanders
16 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: envy, The Great Enrichment
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
Spot on Bryan Caplan
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: methodology of economics, philosophy of science, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Jordan Peterson: The fatal flaw in leftist American politics | Big Think
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick Tags: anti-market bias, envy, pessimism bias, regressive left, top 1%
Discrimination at Harvard? | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono [The Glenn Show]
11 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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