
The Stigler diet – dirt cheap but terribly boring
20 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in George Stigler, poverty and inequality
Charles Murray — Human Diversity book release
17 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of fertility, family poverty, marriage and divorce
Why Jordan Peterson is certain Icelands equal pay laws will fail
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, financial economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: gender wage gap
Debate on Progress Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton
11 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
In Short: Marianne Bertrand on the gender earnings gap
10 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars
Why is there still a gender pay gap?
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap
James Heckman on affirmative action
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: affirmative action, child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit






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