Recalibrating Affirmative Action | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, regressive left, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Richard Epstein | The Case Against Reparations 2020
10 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, income redistribution, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, Richard Epstein Tags: racial discrimination
Glenn Loury | Systemic Racism, Trump and BLM
09 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: racial discrimination
We Must Question The COVID-19 Status Quo (w/Dr. Jay Bhattacharya)
07 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of pandemics
Unclear if Draconian Measures Saved Lives — John P.A. Ioannidis
06 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of pandemics, offsetting bbehaviour, pessimism bias, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The ubiquity and selectiveness of statistical discrimination
05 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, racial discrimination, statistical discrimination
Lang and Lehmann 2005, JEL
Anti-science left @Greens @Greenpeace @NZGreens on #GMOs #vaccination #nuclearpower #recycling #fluoridation & economics #globalwarming
04 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, health economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand Tags: anti-GMO movement, Anti-Science left, fluoridation, nuclear energy, recycling, solar power, vaccination, vaccines, wind power
45% of Australia’s residential aged care facilities are for profit
02 Oct 2020 1 Comment
in industrial organisation, law and economics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, property rights Tags: ageing society
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
.@BernieSanders @AOC @Greens @NZGreens
02 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, Economics of international refugee law, economics of love and marriage, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, fiscal policy, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health and safety, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, International law, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: Age of Enlightenment, moral psychology, offsetting behaviour, political psychology, regressive left, The fatal conceit, The Great Enrichment, unintended consequences, useful idiots
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
America First – Patriots or Nazis? – WW2 Special
30 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: World War II
Blaspheming while it is still legal
30 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Freedom of religion, political correctness, 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
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