Gordon Tullock on the purpose of government

26 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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George Stigler (1949) on the increasing obsession of economists with income distribution

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Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages

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Walter Williams on racial discrimination and social progress

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Daron Acemoglu: Robots and Jobs

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Was @BernieSanders the last useful idiot to make a pilgrimage to the USSR?

22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer

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Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?

16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment

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Wage Subsidies

14 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform

What happens when welfare benefits increase?

13 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Bruce Gilley – “The Case for Colonialism”

12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy

12 Aug 2019 2 Comments

by Jim Rose in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: , , , ,

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley

11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: , , ,

The hilarious freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs | Steven Levitt

09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities

08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment

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