
P.T. Bauer (1959) on the Permit Raj at its most bizarre and cruel
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: India

Charles Murray: Why America is Coming Apart Along Class Lines
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: child poverty, family poverty, single mothers
Richard Posner on public intellectuals
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: fall of communism, useful idiots

Another driver of the gender wage gap that is not the result of employer discrimination
26 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Gender wage gap is bugger all after adjusting for motherhood penalty @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Why ‘Free College’ Is a Terrible Idea
24 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: adverse selection, signalling
The Danes are awash in data. Shed a tear for your own job security if there is a death in the CEO’s family.
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Jennifer Doleac on crime
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Blind audition study: Truth or myth? | FACTUAL FEMINIST
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of information, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: gender wage gap
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
Do bosses take your labour surplus with them when they die? More on the rise of a working rich @AOC @BernieSanders
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: labour theory of value, top 1%

from http://www.ericzwick.com/capitalists/capitalists.pdf
Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar, Eric Zwick, Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 1675–1745,
Videographic: Have the parenting roles of men and women changed?
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Stossel: The Science Around Male Brains vs. Female Brains
17 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology

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