Our take on the latest Household Incomes in NZ report closertogether.org.nz/no-quick-escap… @MaxRashbrooke #inequality #poverty http://t.co/c1L9QHs3fi—
Closer Together (@CloserTogether) July 09, 2014
Why are alternative facts about inequality trends OK with the NZ Left?
24 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
The compassion of unions towards the minimum waged
24 Jan 2017 1 Comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions Tags: do gooders, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge
Source: page 451 and page 828 of the 3rd edition (1972) of University Economics by Armen Alchian and William Allen; the first part of the quotation is Question #30 at the end of Chapter 22. via Bonus Quotation of the Day… – Cafe Hayek
7 of the 8 top billionaires built their business from scratch without political help @Oxfam
16 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
British gender pay gap now negative for 20 something women
13 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: British economy, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Hate speech against rich is surprisingly popular across spectrum
11 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: British politics, envy, hate speech, superstars, top 1%
British top 1% really have dropped the ball, left labour surplus on the table
11 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
Richard Epstein’s lecture on Piketty
05 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, poverty and inequality, Richard Epstein
Deirdre McCloskey summarises Rawls and Nozick on unequal incomes
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, Gordon Tullock, growth miracles, history of economic thought, James Buchanan, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Rawls and Nozick Tags: creative destruction, Deirdre McCloskey, industrial revolution, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%, veil of ignorance, veil of uncertainty
Source: Review of Michael J. Sandel’s What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets by Deirdre McCloskey August 1, 2012. Shorter version published in the Claremont Review of Books XII(4), Fall 2012 via Deirdre McCloskey: editorials.
Child poverty and top 1% income shares seems to have been stable for 20 years, more or less
21 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Thomas Sowell – Black Lives and Social Policy
08 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: economics of families, racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
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