“A Life Cycle Model of Trans-Atlantic Employment Experiences” by Thomas J. Sargent
14 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, minimum wage, unemployment Tags: Eurosclerosis, Thomas Sargent
Dr Peltzman-U C
14 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, Sam Peltzman, unemployment
The Left’s War on Science
13 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, rentseeking Tags: academic bias
No gender gap here
12 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: abortion rights

More of the absence of an anti-fascist left
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of religion, law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights Tags: political correctness, regressive left

Class war canceled because of the laziness of the top 1% in gobbling up labour surplus
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: top 1%

F A Hayek – The Power Of Pricing
11 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, F.A. Hayek, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-market bias
Which is more important? The gap or which women do the least unpaid housework?
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply Tags: marriage and divorce

The Problem With Affirmative Action | We The Internet TV
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Joined Her Sport
10 May 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, sports economics Tags: political correctness
The late Tony Atkinson, a pioneer in inequality research, used to quip that for most of his career his work was “deeply unfashionable.”
09 May 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, George Stigler, history of economic thought, poverty and inequality

From George Stigler Five Problems in Economic Theory 1949 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84261/page/n9
Jonathan Haidt: Three Stories About Capitalism (2014 WORLD.MINDS)
09 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of religion, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle Tags: moral psychology, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

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