Fama on a fiscal stimulus
25 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: fiscal policy
Why is the lesbian pay gap so positively large in the USA?
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Hayek to @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace
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in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, F.A. Hayek, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit
@JordanBPeterson On The Impact Of the Radical Left
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism
Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, unintended consequences
A fair summary by Dube; note repeated reference to modest increases. This can be offset by diluting service quality and staffing levels and hours such as in old age care studies
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Ben Vollaard on an unusually personalised habitual offender law @sst_nz @NZJusticeIdeas
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
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