Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, & Scientific Progress | Conversations with Tyler
13 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle
Hayek and Pandemic Response with Professor Mark Pennington
23 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, F.A. Hayek, health economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, law and economics, personnel economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting behaviour, pessimism bias, political correctness, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
HT Cafe Hayek
Bryan Caplan – education is signaling
20 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, moral hazard, screening, signaling
Steve Davis on #COVID19 as a reallocation shock
11 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, health economics, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: creative destruction, economics of pandemics
There is so many nominal wage cuts that efficient contracting theory is in question. Keynes is long dead.
06 May 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, personnel economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
Myth of the Rational Voter
02 May 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, election campaigns, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, minimum wage, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, population economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, resource economics, theory of the firm, transport economics, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, regressive left
Alfred Marshall on state ownership
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of bureaucracy, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, organisational economics, personnel economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: offsetting behaviour, state ownership, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Steve Davis: How has #COVID19 affected businesses?
16 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economics of natural disasters, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: economics of pandemics
More from Murphy and Topel on why efficiency wages theory falls down
27 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, labour economics, personnel economics
How The Ford Model T Took Over The World
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: mass production
Why Murphy and Topel do not think much of efficiency wages theory
26 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, labour economics, personnel economics
What is new and true in efficiency wage theory?
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics
From Y. Weiss et al. (eds.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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