Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: law and order, moral psychology
Criminals released after DNA testing started are 17% less likely to reoffend! @sst_nz (A greater chance of getting caught is instant rehabilitation)
21 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

Has feminism gone too far? — with Christina Hoff Sommers and Camile Paglia (1994) | THINK TANK
19 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left
Friends Don’t Let Friends Become Chinese Billionaires
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: China, crony capitalism
Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, dating market, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage market

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: war on drugs
Can behavioural economists explain why incentives work in an asylum for the criminally insane
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, experimental economics, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of mental illness, token economies

Interesting referendum
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: conscription, Switzerland








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