
Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Professor Robert E. Lucas Jr.,
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution
Rare Economic Disasters: What Role Does Government Play? | Robert Barro
24 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment
Robert E. Lucas Jr. What was the industrial revolution
23 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution
Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
Lost on the woke
19 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, regressive left

#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @BernieSanders
18 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: The fatal conceit

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer says @JacindaArdern
16 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty

Richard Posner (1992) on feminists
14 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of religion, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Richard Posner Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination


TEDxEast – Tyler Cowen – The Great Stagnation
14 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, transport economics Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
Heather Mac Donald And Glenn Loury On Policing, Race, And Ideological Conformity
12 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
.@AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens
12 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Enrichment

Fiscal multipliers and welfare benefit increases
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: fiscal multiplier, Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics

Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences


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