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
David Henderson on Monopsony
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics Tags: inequality of bargaining power, monopsony
Tom Sargent Honorary Degree Lecture on the European monetary crisis
01 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, Edward Prescott, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
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
Demonetization: When 86% of India’s Currency Disappeared (Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard)
28 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, currency unions, Euro, monetary policy
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
“The Recession of 2007 to ?” by Robert E. Lucas – Friedman Forum Lecture 2012
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, inflation targeting, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health and safety, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatal conceit
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%
#OTD #COVID19
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics
Lost on @NZHumanRights @Greens @NZGreens @AOC @BernieSanders
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment
Official @greenpeaceusa estimated cost of doing nothing about #globalwarming #climateemergency!
23 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, business cycles, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, global financial crisis (GFC), global warming, great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: climate alarmists, The fatal conceit
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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