Pessimism in a World of Increasing Abundance (Steven Pinker)
17 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, international economics, International law, liberalism, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
The Truth Cannot be Sexist – Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
15 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap, moral psychology
Feminism’s Biggest Blindspot Revealed | Cafe Classroom
12 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: political correctness, regressive left, women's liberation
SNL destroys @SenWarren’s Medicare-for-all
03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, The fatal conceit, top 1%, wealth tax
Duflo and Banerje are a cross between Trump and crazy Bernie on economic populism
31 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: anti-foreign bias, economics of immigration, free trade
#fakenews from @AOC @SenWarren @BernieSanders
30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 2020 presidential election, envy, top 1%
P.T. Bauer (1959) on the Permit Raj at its most bizarre and cruel
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: India
The off the book incomes of beneficiaries – from Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein
28 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance, welfare fraud
Gender wage gap is bugger all after adjusting for motherhood penalty @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
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