Jason Brennan and Larry Temkin on Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: capitalism and freedom
Bryan Caplan on Marxism, Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
12 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle
Gender socially constructed; parents can’t make kids say please, thank you despite 24/7 access for 20 years
11 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioral genetics, child psychology, evolutionary psychology, personality psychology
But @NZHumanRights refutes @KaraninaSumeo; pay transparency doesn’t matter to gender wage gap if few bargain outside of big end of town
08 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
From https://www.hrc.co.nz/news/new-research-reveals-large-number-kiwis-are-experiencing-unequal-pay/
Bryan Caplan – Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids – 2010 Forsyth Lecture
02 Jul 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality Tags: behavioral genetics
Assimilation and aborginal prosperity
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: Canada, racial discrimination
More on reservations as backwaters
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: Canada, racial discrimination
Indian reservations are pockets of poverty
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economics of education, economics of regulation, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: racial discrimination
Jordan Peterson Debunks White Privilege
28 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Jordan Peterson: IQ debate
27 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: IQ, political correctness, regressive left
@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace @jeremycorbyn
27 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
Fair Argument Against “Systemic Racism”
26 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination, regressive left
The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK
26 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, unintended consequences
Why surveys should not conflate sex and gender identity
22 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, regressive left, sex discrimination
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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