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The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money

06 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, signaling and screening

Evolutionary Psychology and #MeToo | Robert Wright & Diana Fleischman

06 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology

How many projects are shovel-ready with the border closed to a global construction engineers market?

04 May 2020 Leave a comment

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Jordan Peterson Debunks Leftist Gender Ideology in 8 Minutes

04 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap, moral psychology, personality psychology

Watch 60-Second Lecture: Women’s Liberation: An Economic Perspective

03 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen | Michael Walzer (1968) Dissent Magazine

03 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-socialist-citizen

Another gender gap

27 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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The majority of travel and tourism unemployment for the next year will be mismatch unemployment

23 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic growth, economics of education, human capital, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, unemployment

From https://www.jstor.org/stable/43495346?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

The hypocrisy of the woke @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: top 1%

Alan Krueger on superstars

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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#COVID19

18 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of pandemics

Still more on #marilynwaring and economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic growth, economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, gender wage gap, marital division of labour, marital labour supply

from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/316102?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Perspective: Marilyn Waring questions how the #GDP is calculated: "The single largest sector of the economy is #UnpaidChildcare. The second largest sector is all the rest of the unpaid work before banking and insurance."#TedTalk #MarilynWaring
https://t.co/Fm12q5qfuo
— Institute for Gender and the Economy (@GenderEconomy) February 8, 2020

50 years on and unpaid labour is still #undervalued and seen as #womenswork. #MarilynWaring #AnneManne @THEMONTHLY: https://t.co/5195qceskc
— WGEA (@WGEAgency) May 17, 2018

For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%

"Inequality and the Ultra-rich" w/Emmanuel Saez is under way and is already promising to be a lively debate!

Kaplan: "If we implemented what Saez recommends in his book, we would get rid of innovation. We wouldn't have Tesla or Pixar."

Follow along: https://t.co/WsPOE0FpXq pic.twitter.com/a30qmVaa9T
— Stigler Center (@StiglerCenter) January 24, 2020

From https://www.aei.org/economics/one-way-abolishing-billionaires-would-undermine-silicon-valley-and-americas-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/

Angus Deaton on what COVID-19 means for inequality and ‘Deaths of Despair’

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty

Stephen Pinkert on property rights and bad tempers

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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