Few wish to #feelthebern in their hip-pocket @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy | The Economist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: affordable housing, land supply, zoning
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Why is there still a gender pay gap?
03 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protest fixing food for freeloaders @AOC @SenSanders
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: regressive left, top 1%
James Heckman on affirmative action
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: affirmative action, child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology by Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Glenn C. Loury
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action
#MedicareForAll @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, Canada, health insurance, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
My @NZHerald op-ed on sparing us from the @NZHumanRights @women_nz pay transparency nightmare
30 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: envy, gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
Paywalled at http://nzh.tw/12304179
Family assistance and poverty traps in America
29 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance
Thomas Sowell – Conquests, Migrations, Race and Cultures
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, international economic law, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, laws of war, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, war and peace Tags: economics of colonialism, racial discrimination
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