
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
Camille Paglia – Women should regard men with a mix of gratitude and rational fear
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: evolutionary psychology, political correctness, regressive left
My favourite economist joke as told by David Friedman
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, law and economics Tags: agent principal problem, asymmetric information, moral hazard

James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: The Great Enrichment
Jon Elster on the lack of gender analysis in the labour theory of value
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: female labour force participation, marital division of labour








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