35 years later: Diamond-Dybvig model of bank runs
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: bank panics, bank runs, deposit insurance
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, Rawls and Nozick, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment
Trade Union Congress nearly summarise the gender wage gap for @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter from a longitudinal study
16 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

Why ‘Sign in With Apple’ Beats Passwords and Facebook | @WSJ
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags: creative destruction
Richard Epstein | Simple Rules for Open Markets
15 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: The fatal conceit
Camille Paglia would have a lot to say to Harvey Weinstein
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, movies Tags: sexual harassment
Few Nobel prize winners in science because few women undertook long duration degrees in the 60s because of no reliable contraception
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice
How to eliminate the gender wage gap in one easy step! Marry down? @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of love and marriage, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap, marriage and divorce

Why feed conspiracy theorists
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in law and economics, Public Choice Tags: conspiracy theories, free speech

Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 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, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, International law, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of exploration, British empire, economics of colonialism





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