Walter Block on sex Discrimination
04 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Why economists are unpopular
01 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, managerial economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Compensating differences in wages and work intensity
01 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, entrepreneurship, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: compensating differences
The tight Detroit automaker oligopoly had wildly unstable market shares and investment strategies
13 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, politics - USA, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics Tags: antitrust economics, competition law, creative destruction
Frank H. Knight: The Forgotten Austrian | Peter G. Klein
16 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, economics of information, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Ludwig von Mises, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: Frank Knight
Follies of Infrastructure: Why the Worst Projects Get Built, and How to Avoid It Bent Flyvbjerg
25 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: entrepreneurship, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Luke Froeb The One Lesson of Business
26 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle
A Quarter Century of ‘The Proper Scope of Government’: Theory and Applications | Oliver Hart
09 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics
How do you align the incentives of sea captains transporting criminals to Australia with those of the public?
06 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Armen Alchian, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, financial economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Ronald Coase, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, incentive compatibility, moral hazard
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven Davis: Will working from home stick
19 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics
CEOs take most of their labour surplus with them
26 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: CEO pay, top 1%
A shortcoming of the NHS; keeping people alive
26 Feb 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: health insurance, social insurance
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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