How Did the Practice of Pricing Fuel with 9/10th of a Penny Get Started?
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in economics of information, energy economics, entrepreneurship, great depression, Public Choice, public economics, transport economics
On the practical irrelevance of moral philosophers (activists and even feminists) to social reform
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Das and Polachek on employers forgetting to discriminate against single childless women
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in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, marriage and divorce, sex discrimination
Williamson and Wright on sticky prices making sense
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in applied price theory, business cycles, economics of information, industrial organisation, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, survivor principle, Thomas M. Humphrey Tags: New Keynesian macroeconomics, sticky prices
Earl A. Thompson on anomalies in unionisation
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in applied price theory, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: inequality of bargaining power
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
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in economic history, economics of natural disasters
The Allied Occupation of Germany After The Treaty of Versailles I THE GREAT WAR July 1919
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Is Darity’s Stratification economics agreeing or disagreeing with Tom Sowell?
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, Thomas Sowell
Black immigrants from the West Indies come from poor developing countries where slavery was far worse than in the southern states of America and the schools not much better either. First generations of Japanese immigrants also came from a poor country and had to overcome language barriers as well.
From Thomas Sowell https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/58a6/49dec46a75716cc08013fa586525a8809b90.pdf
Monopsony has a monopoly on ambiguity and sexing up search frictions as exploitation too
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: job search, labour market search, monopsony, search and matching
George Stigler on the contribution of monopsonistic competition
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in applied price theory, George Stigler, history of economic thought, industrial organisation
From George Stigler Five Lectures in Economic Problems 1949.
Christina Hoff Sommers on how women’s right to vote was born in political pragmatism and a desire to win
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: female franchise, virtue signalling, voting rights
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