In Short: Marianne Bertrand on the gender earnings gap
10 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Few wish to #feelthebern in their hip-pocket @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The real reason there aren’t more female scientists | FACTUAL FEMINIST
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, occupational segregation, reversing gender gap
Bryan Caplan The case against education
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signaling
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars
Marianne Bertrand on helicopter parenting driving the gender wage gap at the top end of town
04 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: economics of fertility, gender wage gap

Is slow growth the new normal?
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice Tags: Eurosclerosis
Why is there still a gender pay gap?
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protest fixing food for freeloaders @AOC @SenSanders
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: regressive left, top 1%




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