Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Lawrence H. White
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in Austrian economics, business cycles, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Evolutionary Psychology and #MeToo | Robert Wright & Diana Fleischman [The Wright Show]
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in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of love and marriage, gender, law and economics Tags: dating markets, evolutionary psychology, signaling
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson on institutions and economic development
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment
Steven Landsburg Discusses Incentives and Taxes
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
The Spanish Flu I THE GREAT WAR Epilogue 2
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in defence economics, economic history, health economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Profile of Caludia Goldin: Why history is important, role of women in labor force and new expansion of NBER…
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Nice profile of Prof Goldin in IMF’s Finance & Development:
Born in 1946 in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, Goldin recalls an early fascination with investigation and intellectual discovery, immersing herself in the wonders of Manhattan’s museums as she fell in love first with archeology, then bacteriology. She went to Cornell University initially to study microbiology but came to embrace the humanities and social sciences, especially history and economics, which became her undergraduate major. She completed her doctorate in industrial organization and labor economics in 1972 at the University of Chicago.
Goldin explains why history is important to economics, citing the book The Race between Education and Technology (2008), which she wrote with fellow Harvard labor economist Lawrence Katz, who is also her husband.
“Larry Katz and I looked at changes in income inequality post-1980 versus pre-1980 and investigated the theory that inequality has risen more post-1980 because of…
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The Sarah Palin of the Left gets her facts wrong again
04 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
Before you call me an “alt-righter” because I criticize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, let me point out that both the Washington Post and PolitiFact—hardly right-wing sites—have called out the new Congressperson for her repeated misstatements and/or lies. I prefer to think that she’s just ignorant rather than mendacious, but her combination of persistent uninformed claims and overweening love of the limelight reminds me of a combination of Sarah Palin and Bill Nye. Ocasio-Cortez is also beloved by Linda Sarsour and HuffPo, which should make us at least a bit wary.
Truly, I don’t understand why Ocasio-Cortez has become a hero of progressives, unless it be that she’s a “woman of color” (she’s Hispanic) and does have a progressive agenda, though she advances it with claims that are palpably false. If we’re to have a Democratic Leader of the Future, let it be one who learns rather than spouts nonsense. I…
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Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
04 Dec 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: Thomas Sowell
Real “Imitation Game” code-breaker Olive Bailey describes Alan Turing
04 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, movies, war and peace Tags: World War II
Racist, warmongering @DemSocialists America vote #BDS and chant From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free
04 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, regressive left
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