David Neumark – Using Minimum Wages to Fight Inequality and Poverty
08 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Watch “Real Time with @BillMaher: Richard Dawkins – Regressive Leftists
07 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of religion, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Richard Sander on affirmative action and education mismatch
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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Affirmative Action and Its Mythology – Fryer and Loury
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
05 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economics of education, gender, geography, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, transport economics, urban economics Tags: creative destruction, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
INCU Global Conference 2014 – Thomas J. Sargent – Keynote Address on the effects of opening borders
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, currency unions, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, transport economics, unemployment Tags: custom unions, free trade, tariffs
Hazeldine and Rashbrooke on the Kiwi working rich
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, superstars, top 1%
WHERE BROWN V. BOARD FELL SHORT – George Will 1994
30 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, constitutional law, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Campaign Ad: Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, election campaigns, environmental economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, unemployment, unions, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: 2020 presidential election, child poverty, crime and punishment, family poverty, law and order
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, top 1%
Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Mises on the appeal of Marxism @AOC @Greens @BernieSanders @NZGreens
22 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economics of crime, economics of education, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Ludwig von Mises, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-market bias, economics of socialism, envy, pessimism bias, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Adam Smith and religion
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: moral hazard, signaling
JPE 1988
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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