
Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Few Nobel prize winners in science because few women undertook long duration degrees in the 60s because of no reliable contraception
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice
How to eliminate the gender wage gap in one easy step! Marry down? @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce

Camille Paglia – Women should regard men with a mix of gratitude and rational fear
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: evolutionary psychology, political correctness, regressive left
Hayek on the pre-Keynesian explanation for mass unemployment
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, F.A. Hayek, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics

A 1962 review summarises pre-Keynesian macroeconomics of mass unemployment
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics

The labour theory of value @AOC @BernieSanders
09 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value

Progress and Incidence: The incidence of a capital-income tax
08 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax incidence
Jon Elster on the lack of gender analysis in the labour theory of value
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: female labour force participation, marital division of labour






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