Lee Ohanian: Hoover, Roosevelt and the Great Depression
19 Aug 2019 1 Comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, great depression, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: real business cycles
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
Transequity didn’t compare prison rates with the general population in 2015 (unlike in 2011 report) @aniobrien @HJJoyceEcon
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics

From https://www.transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/USTS-Full-Report-FINAL.PDF and for 2011 comparisons, see https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2019/05/08/why-do-transwomen-go-to-prison-40-times-as-much-as-women-in-the-usa-in-2011/
Acemoglu and Robinson on inclusive institutions and American exceptionalism
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

A high or low level of stranger violence compared to the general population and to women?
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, gender, law and economics
Acemoglu and Robinson on comparative economic development
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism

Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment
Wage Subsidies
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform
Excellent example of a random productivity shock behind real business cycles
14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

Jack Hirshleifer: economics in one page
13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, health economics, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: gender wage gap, marijuana decrimilization, rent control

Bruce Gilley – “The Case for Colonialism”
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, 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, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism, political correctness
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
Blind recruitment is sexist and shockingly racist @NZHumanRights @NZTreasury
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit






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