At the depths of the #COVID19 depression
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: economics of pandemics, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Women’s sports
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: political correctness, sex discrimination, regressive left, 2020 presidential election
Angus Deaton: Epidemiology, randomised trials, and the search for what works in economic development
20 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, labour economics, minimum wage, Public Choice Tags: philosophy of science, The fatal conceit
Posner on the left as feminism’s best home
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Posner, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, sex discrimination, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, women's liberation
How do B- students keep up with pace of medical school course, much less pass exams?
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Dominion Post 19 September 2020, p. A7
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Trailblazer, Dies at 87 | @WSJ
19 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, gender, income redistribution, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, constitutional law
Angus Deaton – “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality”
18 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of education, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: child mortality, infant mortality, The Great Escape
What would @AOC @oxfam @Greenpeace @berniesanders @Greens @NZGreens choose?
15 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Joseph Schumpeter, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions Tags: The fatel conceit, The Great Enrichment
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