Oklahoma Doctors vs. Obamacare
03 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, health economics, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, health insurance, moral hazard, self-selection
Edward Lazear – “Rationality in Policy Making”
27 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
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Unpacking Policy Consequences: Kevin Murphy and Ed Lazear Part 1
26 Nov 2020 Leave a comment
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Richard A. Posner, “The Embattled Corporation”
27 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
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Employment Protection laws reduces hiring of risky applicants
26 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, health economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: employment law, employment protection laws, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Robert Lucas and Paco Buera | Idea Flows and Economic Growth
20 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of education, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Robert E. Lucas Tags: endogenous growth theory
Steven Landsburg – Why is there something instead of nothing? – September 19,2020
11 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences
How do DHBs find out how many kids specialists have to pay mothers less per kid? Illegal to ask. Maybe supply-side factors are driving the gender wage gap?
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, motherhood penalty
Little wonder @women_nz ignores world’s top female economist
01 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, regressive left
100% of NZ gender wage gap for high earners is unexplained
29 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
How to Prepare for Your Economist Interview at Amazon
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: creative destruction
Letter to @DomPost
24 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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Batting blind on unconscious bias! @NZHumanRights relies on newspapers, blogs and YouTube clips!!
20 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Spot the government owned business @AOC @BernieSanders
18 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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