The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti-Discrimination Laws
28 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Richard Epstein, survivor principle Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
Richard Epstein: Obamacare’s Collapse, the 2016 Election, & More
27 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Richard Epstein
Is everything the left and unions say about labour shares and inequality a measurement error or just a bad theory
26 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: pessimism bias
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
26 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform
Did the left ever believe in academic freedom?
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: academic bias, child poverty, family poverty, social insurance
Are corporate board diversity and more women directors proxy variables errors? @women_nz
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, financial economics, gender
HT https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/do-female-board-members-matter.html from Alam, Zinat S. and Chen, Mark A. and Ciccotello, Conrad S. and Ryan, Harley E., Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions? (December 18, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3336445 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3336445
Crunched: is capitalism really ending poverty?
23 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Gong Farmer (Worst Jobs in History)
23 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Note for @AOC on the importance of being morally right than factually correct
22 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
21 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: superstar wages, top 1%
Richard Epstein presents “The Anti-discrimination Juggernaut” – David C. Baum Lecture, April 2019
21 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of regulation, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
The Numbers Game: The Paradox of Household Income
19 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
The White Ignorance of Milton Friedman
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, Milton Friedman
White people have the luxury of not thinking about race if they don’t want to. Marginalized people, on the other hand, are forced to think about their own oppression all the time if they want to get by in the world. One way to think about this luxury is what philosopher Charles Mills calls “white ignorance.” In scholarship, one way the white ignorance is displayed is by white scholars, whom Critical Race Theorist Richard Delgado called “imperial scholars,” who ignore the scholarship of people of color. The poster child for white ignorance may well be Milton Friedman.
Milton Friedman was one of the most famous economists of the twentieth century. The leading light of the “Chicago School of Economics,” the most influential economics department in the world, Nobel prize-winner in Economics in 1976. If there were an All-Star team of economists, Friedman would be in the…
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LSE Sociology: Are There Any Right-Wing Sociologists? (Maybe they mostly work in the criminology field!)
18 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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