
NZ government cut everything that could be cut by 20% in 1931
29 Mar 2020 7 Comments
in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics

The dangers of inaccurate statistics
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, monetary economics, unemployment
The Bill That Killed Freelance
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: employment law
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Jason Riley On “False Black Power?”
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination, regressive left
Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Does neoclassical macroeconomics rule out depressions?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, public economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment, unions Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

Charles Murray — Human Diversity book release
17 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of fertility, family poverty, marriage and divorce








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