The late Tony Atkinson, a pioneer in inequality research, used to quip that for most of his career his work was “deeply unfashionable.”
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in applied price theory, George Stigler, history of economic thought, poverty and inequality

From George Stigler Five Problems in Economic Theory 1949 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84261/page/n9
Jonathan Haidt: Three Stories About Capitalism (2014 WORLD.MINDS)
09 May 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of religion, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, survivor principle Tags: moral psychology, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
But @AOC #blacklivesmatter say that racism is just getting worse and worse
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, law and order, pessimism bias, political correctness, racial discrimination
Astrid Kunze – Why do women fall behind men
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
IZA World of Labor – Economic inequality
25 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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Thomas Sowell – The Ethnic Flaw 1984 2/2
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination
Child poverty stable and child hardship falling for so long that @povertymonitor forgot to update this graphic for 2018
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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Jordan Peterson: The Mind of Highly (Dis-)Agreeable People
18 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: personality psychology
Jordan Peterson: What Does it Mean to have an IQ LESS than 83 | with Dr. Richard Haier
16 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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STEVEN PINKER | THE CASE FOR REASON, SCIENCE, HUMANISM, AND PROGRESS |
16 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, health economics, International law, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, The Great Enrichment
Surprisingly witty Jordan Peterson on How Gender Temperament Data is Not a Right-Wing Conspiracy (Oxford Union)
13 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Jordan Peterson discusses whether men and women can ever be equal
12 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
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: gender wage gap
Discrimination and Disparities with Thomas Sowell
10 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell Tags: child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
08 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination

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