More Sex is Safer Sex and Other Surprises – Steven E. Landsburg
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, economics of religion, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Scandinavian welfare states free-ride
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics Tags: creative destruction, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply

Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: capital gains tax, envy, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, top 1%
Piketty’s class war was based on measurement error
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, health and safety, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias
Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: affirmative action, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
Is @BernieSanders A Democratic Socialist? Or Just a Socialist?
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election
Class war cancelled @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @jeremycorbyn
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: tax havens

Acemoglu on how democracy came to America
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, International law, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, economics of colonialism

Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Even more bond market fraud by climate alarmists @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @mfe_news @Greenpeaceusa
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: climate alarmists

Sowell (1983) on racial discrimination and the groups that get ahead
29 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, urban economics, welfare reform Tags: political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit
My @NZHerald op-ed @nzdrug @_chloeswarbrick @familyfirstnz
27 Feb 2020 2 Comments
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of regulation, health economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: marijuana decrimilisation
Does neoclassical macroeconomics rule out depressions?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, public economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment, unions Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory





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