
Marshallian period analysis shows there is no such thing as a shortage. Shortage is code for I’m too cheap to pay the new going rate.
26 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, Austrian economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, survivor principle Tags: skills shortages

Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
26 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: automation, creative destruction, pessimism bias
Norway’s Muslim immigrants attend compulsory classes on western attitudes to women @Guardian
24 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, economics of media and culture, gender, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of immigration, law and order
Muslim women discuss removing their hijab at work
23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of media and culture, gender, labour economics Tags: political correctness
More on down and out in America (p.s. we don’t have air conditioning)
23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, regressive left, The Great Enrichment

Note to radical feminists: capitalism was the engine of women’s liberation
23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply

From https://slate.com/culture/2001/01/microwave-oven-liberation.html by Stephen Landsburg
Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Race (Book TV 2013)
23 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Progress is bad?
22 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: regressive left, top 1%

Walter Williams Suffers No Fools
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination, Walter Williams
Testing bullet proof glass in 1932
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice
Thomas Sowell – Preferential Policies (Fascinating 1990 Interview)
21 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell






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