How The Ford Model T Took Over The World
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: mass production
.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, College premium, graduate premium, screening, self-selection, signaling
Share buybacks limit free cash and managerial excesses
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, property rights, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: agent principal problem
Bertrand on gender diversity programs intensifying the glass ceiling
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences

Dumbest #COVID19 idea yet
12 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, economics of pandemics, endogenous growth theory, patents and copyright

The Bill That Killed Freelance
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: employment law
Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Only 2 general purpose technologies in the 20th century?
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, general purpose technologies

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




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