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/
Thomas Sowell Destroys Feminism and Racialism in under 5 minutes
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Jordan Peterson: IQ debate
27 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: IQ, political correctness, regressive left
The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK
26 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, unintended consequences
Bryan Caplan – education is signaling
20 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, moral hazard, screening, signaling
Shocking Facts About the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
19 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: air accidents, air crash investigations, space





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