HT: Tim Andrews
08 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, meddlesome preferences, offsetting behaviour, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Steven J. Davis — “Some Economic Implications of COVID-Related Shocks”
30 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, real business cycles
3 books that drove Glenn away from the right in the 90s | Glenn Loury & Daniel Bessner
15 Jan 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
What’s wrong with education? A Symposium featuring Bryan Caplan & Miguel Urquiola
16 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: signaling
David Card: The Economics of Immigration
29 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic history, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: economics of immigration
Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
10 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? | Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani [The Glenn Show]
29 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The fatal conceit
More gender gaps
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left
Rare Economic Disasters: What Role Does Government Play? | Robert Barro
24 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of natural disasters, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment
Lost on the woke
19 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, regressive left
#globalwarming #climateemergency @Greenpeace @Greens @AOC @NZGreens @BernieSanders
18 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, gender, global warming, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: The fatal conceit
.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots
How Did Paul Krugman Get It So Wrong?
30 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, Euro crisis, financial economics, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, job search and matching, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Bryan Caplan on wage gaps
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, unions Tags: gender wage gap, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
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