
Hayek (1950) on why the current stimulus will fail
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy, Keynesian macroeconomics

Share buybacks limit free cash and managerial excesses
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: agent principal problem
Objections to women in the police, army and fire brigade because of differences in strength and aggression were shouted down in 80s & 90s
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation Tags: The fatal conceit
Jordan Peterson: Career vs. motherhood: Are women being lied to? | Big Think
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of fertility, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce
McArdle on Nozick and the soccer gender wage gap
15 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap
.@ProfDBernstein reminds the woke of who gains from hate speech laws
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Bertrand on gender diversity programs intensifying the glass ceiling
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Is the gender prize gap driven by which sports are on the telly and rate well
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, sports economics Tags: gender wage gap, superstars
Charles Murray — The Bell Curve Revisited in 2014
13 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: conjecture and refutation, IQ, philosophy of science, political correctness, regressive left
2014 Edward Prescott
13 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, Edward Prescott, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights Tags: real business cycle theory








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