.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell Tags: fall of communism, offsetting behaviour, rational irrationality, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
I have a dream
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice
The Premiers’ Plan versus the New Deal. Do Keynesian macroeconomists ever study 1930s Australia
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - Australia, politics - USA, public economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Growing up in the crack cocaine epidemic led to parents encouraging ways of talking and acting by inner-city kids; pure survival skills known as street capital
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA
From https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00181-016-1160-y and https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/working-papers/2014-working-papers/wp-1302r-human-capital-in-the-inner-city
Blokes are bigger
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, sports economics Tags: sex discrimination
But @BernieSanders repeatedly said immigrants lower wages @AOC?
29 May 2020 Leave a comment
in international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, economics of immigration, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Kaupapa Māori indigenous knowledge-based econometrics is surprisingly sophisticated for pre-Age of Enlightenment intuitive knowledge that also thought the earth was flat! Academic rent seeking/tokenism to win research grants?
28 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, health economics, politics - New Zealand, rentseeking
… (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.
I tuhi a Rōpiha i ētahi pūrongo i ‘Te Ao Hou’, ā, i āwhina atu hoki ia ki te ārahi i ngā kaupapa a te maheni nei i ōna tau tuatahi (TTR 2000:188). / Rōpiha wrote articles for ‘Te Ao Hou’, and he also helped guide the magazine’s policies in its early years.
kaupapa Māori
1. Māori approach, Māori topic, Māori customary practice, Māori institution, Māori agenda, Māori principles, Māori ideology – a philosophical doctrine, incorporating the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of Māori society.
The productivity slowdown since the mid-2000s is due to mismeasurement?
28 May 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic history, labour economics
A-List Actors Who Turned Down Hollywood’s Biggest Action Roles
27 May 2020 Leave a comment
in movies, occupational choice, television
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes Episode 6 – What’s Wrong with our Schools
26 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, television, unemployment, unions Tags: chartered schools
A point lost on @JacindaArdern
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Freedom of religion, sex discrimination
Unemployment rate in Georgia is 40%
25 May 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: 2020 presidential election, economics of pandemics, moral hazard, unemployment insurance
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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