
Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit
42% of asylum seekers choose to go home
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration
Lucas and Sargent (1979) on propagation in equilibrium business cycle models
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

Creative destruction
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, India

Does neoclassical macroeconomics rule out depressions?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, public economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment, unions Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

Fama in full on fiscal policy
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
Alan Manning on testing for monopsony power
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, personnel economics
No rug rat race in Canada, building after-school resumes for elite college admission. Few study outside their own province.
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: College premium, graduate premium

Does driving drive the gender wage gap for professional women? @women_nz
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: College premium, gender wage gap, graduate premium

Fama on a fiscal stimulus
25 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy
Why is the lesbian pay gap so positively large in the USA?
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism











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