
Ellen McGrattan in real business cycle models
21 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory

Ireland’s worst bank strike lasted 6-months
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, financial economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unions Tags: economics of banking, union power

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

Plosser on money and business cycles
20 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, financial economics, great depression, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

.@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
Hayek (1950) on why the current stimulus will fail
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy, Keynesian macroeconomics

Objections to women in the police, army and fire brigade because of differences in strength and aggression were shouted down in 80s & 90s
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation Tags: The fatal conceit
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
McArdle on Nozick and the soccer gender wage gap
15 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
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







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