
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

Longer probation periods = higher teacher’s pay
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, labour economics, labour supply

From BRUNNER, ERIC J., and JENNIFER IMAZEKI. “PROBATION LENGTH AND TEACHER SALARIES: DOES WAITING PAY OFF?” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 64, no. 1 (2010): 164-80. Accessed September 12, 2020.
Fiat Value in the theory of value – an ADEMU lecture by Edward C Prescott
12 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, fisheries economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycles
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
3rd. Global Conference Business Cycles – Edward C Prescott
10 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
The Highland Clearances: Explained
09 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: British history, Scotland
David Neumark – Using Minimum Wages to Fight Inequality and Poverty
08 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology – Fryer and Loury
06 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination



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