
Another gender gap that dare not speak its name
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics Tags: marriage and divorce

Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: racial discrimination
Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit

James Robinson: “Why Nations Fail” | Talks at Google
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: autocracy
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

Scott Freeman and Bruce Champ on the Phillips Curve
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: The pretence to knowledge

Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism, imperialism
Sweatshops Are a Dream when your children live in a Dante-like vision of hell
05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: Cambodia, child labour, extreme poverty, The fatal conceit

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html
Down and out in America
05 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment

The predictable consequence of unleashing do-gooders in least developed countries
04 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, do gooders, Labour standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From “Where Sweatshops Are a Dream” https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html




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