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Valerie Ramey: The Role of the Family in Children’s Educational Achievement

10 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, education premium, family poverty

Maori real incomes up 83% since 1992

08 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality

Source: Ministry of Social Development at https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/monitoring/household-incomes/household-incomes-1982-to-2018.html

Robert Lucas on wealth taxes

07 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, Robert E. Lucas

From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/1993/interview-with-robert-e-lucas-jr

Evolutionary Psychology and #MeToo | Robert Wright & Diana Fleischman

06 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary psychology

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe

04 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

From https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than_europe

A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen | Michael Walzer (1968) Dissent Magazine

03 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

From https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-socialist-citizen

Jason Brennan: Fake Socialism vs. Real Capitalism

20 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Adam Smith, applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Milton Friedman, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: Age of Enlightenment, capitalism and freedom, The Great Escape

The hypocrisy of the woke @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: top 1%

Alan Krueger on superstars

19 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Still more on #marilynwaring and economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn @women_nz

17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic growth, economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, gender wage gap, marital division of labour, marital labour supply

from https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/316102?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Perspective: Marilyn Waring questions how the #GDP is calculated: "The single largest sector of the economy is #UnpaidChildcare. The second largest sector is all the rest of the unpaid work before banking and insurance."#TedTalk #MarilynWaring
https://t.co/Fm12q5qfuo
— Institute for Gender and the Economy (@GenderEconomy) February 8, 2020

50 years on and unpaid labour is still #undervalued and seen as #womenswork. #MarilynWaring #AnneManne @THEMONTHLY: https://t.co/5195qceskc
— WGEA (@WGEAgency) May 17, 2018

For @BernieSanders @AOC @SenWarren voters relying on @Amazon in the lockdown by Steve Kaplan

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%

"Inequality and the Ultra-rich" w/Emmanuel Saez is under way and is already promising to be a lively debate!

Kaplan: "If we implemented what Saez recommends in his book, we would get rid of innovation. We wouldn't have Tesla or Pixar."

Follow along: https://t.co/WsPOE0FpXq pic.twitter.com/a30qmVaa9T
— Stigler Center (@StiglerCenter) January 24, 2020

From https://www.aei.org/economics/one-way-abolishing-billionaires-would-undermine-silicon-valley-and-americas-entrepreneurial-ecosystem/

Angus Deaton on what COVID-19 means for inequality and ‘Deaths of Despair’

14 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty

Richard Rogerson, Retirement, Home Production and Labor Supply Elasticities

13 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: economics of retirement, female labour force participation, health insurance, labour force participation, social insurance

More on #marilynwaring and economists ignoring home production @waring_marilyn

12 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, discrimination, econometerics, gender, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap

50 years on and unpaid labour is still #undervalued and seen as #womenswork. #MarilynWaring #AnneManne @THEMONTHLY: https://t.co/5195qceskc
— WGEA (@WGEAgency) May 17, 2018

at https://www.jstor.org/stable/25054869?seq=1

Perspective: Marilyn Waring questions how the #GDP is calculated: "The single largest sector of the economy is #UnpaidChildcare. The second largest sector is all the rest of the unpaid work before banking and insurance."#TedTalk #MarilynWaring
https://t.co/Fm12q5qfuo
— Institute for Gender and the Economy (@GenderEconomy) February 8, 2020

The Great Society: A New History with Amity Shlaes

02 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance

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