Are CEOs overpaid?
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, financial economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, theory of the firm Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction

Can banks create money at will?
28 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, managerial economics, monetary economics, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: economics of banking

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
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

Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, unintended consequences

Why so many jobs now require a college degree | reTHINK TANK
17 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, graduate premium, signaling
Why Jordan Peterson is certain Icelands equal pay laws will fail
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, financial economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: gender wage gap
Resolved: The Government Should Cut Off All Funding to Colleges and Universities
14 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: asymmetric information, signaling
Who pays for employee non-compete clauses?
13 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: employment law





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