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
.@ProfDBernstein on Posner on racial discrimination by minority businesses in hiring
02 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: affirmative action, job search, labour market search, racial discrimination

Hershleifer on postive economics
30 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, market efficiency, Public Choice, survivor principle

.@RossMcKitrick – An Evidence-Based Approach to Pricing CO2 Emissions and carbon tax futures contracts 4 July 2013
08 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, market efficiency, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon tax
Market crashes are efficient – Boldrin and Levine
14 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, financial economics, macroeconomics, market efficiency Tags: creative destruction, real business cycles

Is Corporate Law Still a Race to the Top? Frank Easterbrook
07 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, financial economics, law and economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, property rights, Public Choice Tags: corporate law
Tirole on the economics of crises
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, development economics, economics of information, entrepreneurship, Euro crisis, global financial crisis (GFC), industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, market efficiency, monetary economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bank panics

Want to Make a Big Bet on Oil Prices? Try Measuring Shadows | @WSJ
13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, market efficiency, survivor principle, transport economics, war and peace Tags: entrepreneurial alertness
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, The fatal conceit

Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer
22 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: CEO pay, envy, superstars





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