
Why are socialists so often in error about facts that strike at the core of their opposition to capitalism?
19 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment

Steve Landsburg on the efficiency wage as a theory of involuntary unemployment
18 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, unemployment Tags: efficiency wage

Patrick J. Kehoe “Asset Prices and Employment Fluctuations”
05 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Everybody Hates Chris S03E08 – Everybody Hates #MinimumWage
22 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, unemployment
Charles Murray on Coming Apart
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: Charles Murray
Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Why Swedes Vote for Populists
20 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of crime, Economics of international refugee law, income redistribution, international economic law, international economics, law and economics, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: populism, Sweden, voter demographics
Deirdre McCloskey: Why You Should Not Worry about Technological Unemployment
09 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, Deirdre McCloskey, pessimism bias, technological unemployment
Using ethnographic research to understand barriers to opportunity
26 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
How High Would You Make the Minimum Wage? (Did @fightfor15 ever expect to win their ambit claim to double the minimum wage?)
26 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, unemployment Tags: pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
.@SenSanders: Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal
20 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of education, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, minimum wage, politics - USA, Public Choice, unemployment Tags: anti-foreign bias, economics of immigration
Thomas J Sargent in conversation with Shekhar Shah
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, development economics, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Thomas Sargent



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