Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, fall of communism, useful idiots
Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: CEO pay, envy, superstars
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
Q+A with Sir Roger Douglas
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of regulation, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, welfare reform Tags: Rogernomics
Doug Allen hinting that gun laws should apply only to men
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: criminal deterrence, gun control, law and order
@NZPrivacy has just increased statistical discrimination by landlords @NZHumanRights
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Psychology of Victim Group Rights | Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels
20 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: political correctness
Daron Acemoglu: Robotics, AI, and the Future of Work
19 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply Tags: automation, technological unemployment
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/
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