Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, regressive left
Thomas Sowell – Wealth Disparity
14 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, pessimism bias
Every billionaire is a failure says @AOC
31 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, top 1%
Debunking Systemic Racism & Having Common Decency (Pt. 2) | Thomas Sowell
21 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, defence economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Richard Posner (1997) on critical race theory
17 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Posner Tags: Age of Enlightenment, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
Wealth taxes debate
17 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, wealth taxes
How Did Ancient Philosophers Make Money?
15 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality
Jason Brennan and Larry Temkin on Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: capitalism and freedom
Gender socially constructed; parents can’t make kids say please, thank you despite 24/7 access for 20 years
11 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioral genetics, child psychology, evolutionary psychology, personality psychology
But @NZHumanRights refutes @KaraninaSumeo; pay transparency doesn’t matter to gender wage gap if few bargain outside of big end of town
08 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/new-research-reveals-large-number-kiwis-are-experiencing-unequal-pay/
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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