
How much of 20th century growth were one-off productivity gains?
25 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice
Another reversing gender gap
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: reversing gender gap
Stephen Pinker on gender equity
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, College premium, graduate premium, screening, self-selection, signaling
Jordan Peterson: Career vs. motherhood: Are women being lied to? | Big Think
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of fertility, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce
Bertrand on gender diversity programs intensifying the glass ceiling
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Charles Murray — The Bell Curve Revisited in 2014
13 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: conjecture and refutation, IQ, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
2014 Edward Prescott
13 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights Tags: real business cycle theory
Bryan Caplan & Charles Murray on “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids”
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of fertility
Paola Sapienza – Does culture affect economic outcomes?
10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration





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