
An important statistical property neglected in public policy
23 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap

Most top economists did not think much of Pikitty’s theory of inequality and growth
23 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic growth, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Another bad day at the office for New Keynesian macroeconomics
21 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: New Keynesian macroeconomics

“Markets without Limits” Jason Brennan, Hayek Lecture Series
21 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, development economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights
When the robots came for the musicians
21 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Music, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Jordan Peterson interviewed by British GQ Magazine Feminist
21 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, liberalism, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, political psychology, regressive left
Public Opinion for Libertarians – Bryan Caplan (2010)
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality
Saudi teen who fled family says freedom was worth risking her life
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of immigration
Surprising unanimity in opposition to a #UBI
20 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Nearly all economists reject monopsony rationale for doubling the minimum wage! @NeumarkDN: countering employer market power over 1/3rd of the workforce with a higher minimum wage is supposed to increase employment and output. Monopsony depresses wages and employment.
19 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA
Further evidence of the superiority of Western values: white male theory of history edition
19 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, property rights Tags: Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism






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