
James Heckman on racial wage gaps and racial discrimination by employers
23 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

A Conversation with George P. Shultz and David D. Friedman
22 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Ronald Reagan
Attention anti-science left @NZGreens (but not @Greens, who praised vaccines as the greatest public health intervention ever)
21 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of information, health economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccines

The dangers of wokeness
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left

A flaw common to many conspiracy theories
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: 9/11, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, Iraq war

The woke so quickly eat their own children | @TheSpinoffTV @adam_currie_nz
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism, regressive left
Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw
20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: envy, superstar wages, superstars, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%, wealth taxes
The Age of Outrage: What It’s Doing to Our Universities, and Our Country | Manhattan Institute
19 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: cognitive psychology, moral psychology, pessimism bias, political correctness, political psychology, regressive left






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