Unconscious-bias training is crude umbrella term. My view: 1. HR-legal departments love it for virtue-signaling value; 2. Very-close-to-zero is best scientific guess of likely effect size on actual discrimination; 3. If it hasn’t arrived already, expect it in your workplace soon pic.twitter.com/kONJdbcWKu
— Philip E. Tetlock (@PTetlock) April 21, 2018
Great critique of unconscious-bias training by Tetlock
22 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Silent Movie Dangerous Stunts
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in health and safety, labour economics, movies Tags: compensating differences, value of life
Inequality: Should We Be Worried?
22 Apr 2018 1 Comment
in economics, labour economics, poverty and inequality
Afghanistan’s first female rapper was physically attacked by 10 men for not wearing the hijab, but she still fights for women’s rights through her music
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, Music
Chapple and Boston on benefit fraud
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in economics of crime, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform
Penni Ha’penny You have probably cherry-picked figures out of context. At any one time possibly 10% of beneficiaries ARE working full-time – on temporary jobs for a week or a month – and it has to be declared and no benefit received for those weeks. Temporary work is all some people can get. About a third aren’t looking for work? If true, this could well be the number of people who hav , in a governmental sleight of hand, been shifted from Sickness and Invalid Benefits onto Jobseeker with Medical Exemption – the dole, but with no requirement to look for work. Because you can’t work. Ridiculous system.

Anti-bias training is useless except as a defence strategy
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: implicit bias

On Freedom, Where Wages Come from, and Other Big Questions (Freedom on Trial Commentary: Part 3)
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Stereotyping in @Google’s inclusivity training
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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The robot-proof job men aren’t taking
21 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, population economics, unemployment Tags: ageing society, automation, creative destruction
Don’t do much for the value of diversity in management
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Most economists now know their limits? @EricCrampton @TaxpayersUnion
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: The fatal conceit

Deirdre McCloskey Liberalism is the way forward
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: Deirdre McCloskey, The Great Enrichment
Simon Chapple found something similar for Maori in a 2000 paper of his
20 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
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Is not Peter Singer making the case for the Berlin Wall to stop flight from a worker’s paradise
19 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, income redistribution, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick

From http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/03/06/the-right-to-be-rich-or-poor/ 1975 review of Anarchy, State and Utopia.
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