Blaspheming while it is still legal in NZ
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of religion, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, regressive left

Glenn C. Loury on Ethics of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
14 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
A daily gender gap @oxfam @GreenpeaceAP @Greens @NZGreens never mention #endoil #endcoal #globalwarming #climateemergency
13 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, energy economics, gender, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply Tags: gender gap, regressive left

Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Thatcher’s Last Stand Against Socialism
07 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Who to cancel next?
06 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony | Freedom Summer
02 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Macroeconomic dynamics and reallocation in an epidemic
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics
Still more on economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz
01 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: female labour supply, marriage and divorce

Biggest gender gap of all; equivalent to 6-12 months extra schooling
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

Ethnicity and cancer
31 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, health economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: life expectancies, Maori economic development

Economics of the City, Edward Glaeser
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, transport economics, urban economics

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