The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
05 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economics of education, gender, geography, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, transport economics, urban economics Tags: creative destruction, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
David Henderson on Monopsony
02 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, sports economics Tags: inequality of bargaining power, monopsony
Hazeldine and Rashbrooke on the Kiwi working rich
31 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: envy, regressive left, superstars, top 1%
Campaign Ad: Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats
26 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, election campaigns, environmental economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, unemployment, unions, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: 2020 presidential election, child poverty, crime and punishment, family poverty, law and order
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health and safety, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatal conceit
Adam Smith and religion
21 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, comparative institutional analysis, David Friedman, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: moral hazard, signaling
JPE 1988
Crime, Violence, and Progress With Steven Pinker (Ep.9)
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The Great Enrichment
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
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