Sargent on unemployment and welfare states
04 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment, welfare reform
Hayek on the pre-Keynesian explanation for mass unemployment
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, business cycles, economic history, F.A. Hayek, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
Thomas Sargent on the conquest of American inflation
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: real business cycles, unemployment and inflation
How Uber, Lyft and Others Could Be Upended By California’s New Law | @WSJ
27 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction
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
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