Steven Landsburg Discusses Incentives and Taxes
05 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
04 Dec 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: Thomas Sowell
Steven Landsburg on overpopulation
03 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics
Doug Allen “The Duel of Honor – screening for unobserved social capital”
30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of crime, human capital, law and economics, property rights Tags: asymmetric information, screening, signalling
Robert Lucas wrote a 1978 paper predicting less self-employment because of rising wages
29 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Kate Andrews debates the the UK gender wage gap on BBC’s Daily Politics
29 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
My @DomPost op-ed on @NZTreasury fat cats
27 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
An underdiscussed example of the Dunning-Kruger effect
18 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics

Lesser known Swedish gender gaps
18 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, Sweden

Why incompetent people think they’re amazing – David Dunning
16 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, health economics, human capital Tags: cognitive psychology
Central planning on steroids
13 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice Tags: China, economics of central planning, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge




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