Happiness research explained
05 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: compensating differentials
Richard Epstein’s lecture on Piketty
05 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, poverty and inequality, Richard Epstein
Deirdre McCloskey summarises Rawls and Nozick on unequal incomes
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: creative destruction, Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%, veil of ignorance, veil of uncertainty
Source: Review of Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets by Deirdre McCloskey August 1, 2012. Shorter version published in the Claremont Review of Books XII(4), Fall 2012 via Deirdre McCloskey: editorials.
Caplan Hanson Debate: Robots will eventually dominate the world
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply Tags: automaton, Bryan Caplan, Robin Hanson, skill biased technological change
Mapping the World’s Immigration Flows, Country-by-Country
29 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: economics of immigration
Frank Easterbrook: Discussion of Robert Bork’s “Saving Justice” from Nixon
26 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: economics of constitutional law, Frank Easterbrook, Richard Nixon, Robert Bork, Watergate scandal
Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
24 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender gap, political correctness
A wages boom followed a surge in corporate profits and the Employment Contracts Act 1993 after 20 years of stagnation
21 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
Child poverty and top 1% income shares seems to have been stable for 20 years, more or less
21 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
An Average Day in the Life of an American
21 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: time use

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