
We need strong leadership to protect town criers, betamax and videostores from unfair competition!
15 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, labour supply, unemployment

Thomas Sowell Brings the World into Focus through an Economics Lens
10 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit
Thomas Sowell – Race and Economics
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: racial discrimination
Daron Acemoglu: Labor demand through the ages
25 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: automation, creative destruction
Stephen Williamson responds to @nytimes: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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
Kathryn Edin on why single mums are choosy
12 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, dating market, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage market

The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Let’s double everyone’s wage. What could go wrong?
08 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: The fatal conceit

Scott Freeman and Bruce Champ on the Phillips Curve
07 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags: The pretence to knowledge

Why the war on poverty failed — and what to do now – John McWhorter
19 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination

From https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/29/14112084/war-on-poverty-brooklyn-great-society






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