A joke lost on @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @jeremycorbyn

09 Jan 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic growth, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, growth disasters, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, macroeconomics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , , , , , ,

Stossel: Inequality Myths

01 Jan 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , ,

The Poorest 20% of Americans Are Richer on Average Than Most Nations of Europe @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren

01 Jan 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: , , ,

Why are America’s poor better off than the average Dane, Swede, British or Canadian? @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren

30 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: , , , , ,

Pocahontas is on the warpath against freeloading billionaires @SenWarren

24 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , , , ,

Crazy @BernieSanders angry about the pay of CEO who started with @Walmat as a teenager unloading trucks

24 Dec 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: , , , , ,

https://twitter.com/HannahPDavis/status/1209222320637661184

Jordan Peterson: Do Marxists Really Have Sympathy for the Working Class?

28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: ,

https://youtu.be/C7rJkQh3JoE

SNL destroys @SenWarren’s Medicare-for-all

03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , , ,

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/11/03/snl-tackles-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-plan-cold-open/

Which billionaires will the @BernieSanders @SenWarren wealth tax abolish?

03 Nov 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: , , , , ,

#fakenews from @AOC @SenWarren @BernieSanders

30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economics of information, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: , ,

Saez and Zucman are rather blase about the impact of wealth taxes on innovation. Encourage innovation then tax away succesful innovators!

25 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, income redistribution, industrial organisation, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: , , , , ,

Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw

20 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose 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: , , , , , , ,

Piketty provoked economists to think more deeply on optimal top tax rates and how low they could be

13 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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Nozick on equality and self-esteem

12 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in Rawls and Nozick Tags: , ,

Piketty provoked excellent research into top tax rates and innovation

04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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