The beauty premium
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in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice Tags: beauty premium
The Myth of the Rational Voter | Bryan Caplan & Will Wilkinson
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of information, Public Choice, public economics Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
From Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View By Kartik B. Athreya
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Thomas Sowell On the Myths of Economic Inequality
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
It’s Sunday, so perhaps you have more time to watch a little longer intellectual discussion of capitalism and freedom from Thomas Sowell, brilliant as usual. A splendid commentary on the general conversation out there today.
Sowell discusses his early life as a high school dropout and his first full-time job as a Western Union messenger delivering telegrams. He admits to flirting with Marxism in his early twenties as he first tried to grapple with the housing inequality he saw across the neighborhoods of New York City. Marxism, he says, was the only explanation he could find at the time. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps before continuing his education in economics at Harvard and earning a master’s at Columbia and a PhD at the University of Chicago.
Sowell’s first job after his receiving his PhD in economics was working for the Department of Labor, and he says…
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George Stigler on the poverty of abundant privacy
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in economic history, economics of information, George Stigler, law and economics, property rights Tags: economics of privacy
Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View – Kartik B. Athreya – on Keynes and Minsky
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in business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Jordan Peterson: workaholic men in positions of power
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, superstars
Why There is No Gender Wage Gap | @Heritage Foundation
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Why are women paid less than men? | @TheEconomist
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, personality psychology
3 gender pay gap myths explained by @guardian
22 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, personality psychology
Good People on Both Sides? – WW2 – 047 – July 20 1940
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Zimbabwe’s inflation and economic mismanagement impacts its cricket..
21 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
International Cricket Council has suspended Zimbabwe as its member:
Zimbabwe have been suspended from the ICC with immediate effect. ICC funding to Zimbabwe Cricket has been frozen, and representative teams from Zimbabwe will not be allowed to participate in any ICC events while under suspension, making Zimbabwe’s participation in the Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier in August and Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier in October highly unlikely.
After several rounds of meetings in London this week, the ICC Board unanimously decided that Zimbabwe Cricket was in breach of Article 2.4 (c) and (d) of the ICC Constitution, and that the actions of the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) in suspending the board in June constituted government interference in Zimbabwe Cricket’s affairs.
“We do not take the decision to suspend a Member lightly, but we must keep our sport free from political interference,” ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar said. “What has happened…
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