
No rug rat race in Canada, building after-school resumes for elite college admission. Few study outside their own province.
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: College premium, graduate premium

Does driving drive the gender wage gap for professional women? @women_nz
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: College premium, gender wage gap, graduate premium

Why the gender wage gap will never close! @women_nz
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice
Lost on the woke
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination

Hayek to @AOC @BernieSanders @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz @Greenpeace
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, F.A. Hayek, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: The fatal conceit

Crazier than @jeremycorbyn! Opposes arming police against gunmen shooting people
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: law and order, police shootings, rational irrationality, virtue signaling

Fred S. McChesney: Public vs. Private Enterprise
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, theory of the firm
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism

Ben Vollaard on an unusually personalised habitual offender law @sst_nz @NZJusticeIdeas
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order

When scrap metal thieving ceases to be a nice little earner @sst_nz @NZJusticeIdeas
22 Feb 2020 Leave a comment

From http://ftp.iza.org/dp11490.pdf Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts APRIL 2018 Tom Kirchmaier, Stephen Machin, Matteo Sandi and Robert Witt




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