How much can discrimination explain? Walter Williams
26 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, Gary Becker, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment
From Fogel The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death
25 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: child health, health capital, physiological capital, The Great Escape

Milton Friedman – Monetary Revolutions – Fiat Currency, Inflation and the Federal Reserve
23 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: monetary policy
An Interview with Friedrich von Hayek by students
21 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Navigating the culture wars with Douglas Murray and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
19 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left
Bryan Caplan – The Case Against Education
18 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, screening, signaling
Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich Jason Brennan
17 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of religion, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: top 1%
Thomas Sowell on the Current Black Culture
16 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Isabel Wilkerson – The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
13 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination
Alan Dershowitz reacts to the resignation of Governor Andrew Cuomo
12 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, law and economics Tags: sex discrimination, sexual harrassment
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti-Discrimination Laws
11 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, labour economics, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit


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