Sex, Drugs and Economics

Authentic, hand-crafted artisanal blog posts on economics and other stuff. Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Why compensating differentials might mean that inequality has been decreasing over time

John McGinnis wrote an interesting piece earlier in the month, on why compensating differentials likely temper any growth in income inequali...

Monday, 27 April 2015

Try this: The monkey economy and behavioural biases

Someone (I forget who, sorry) pointed me to this 2010 TED Talk by Laurie Santos (a psychologist at Yale). In it, Santos talks about creatin...

Saturday, 25 April 2015

Why export quotas probably failed to help coffee farmers

Last year, my wife and I both read the same story from Daily Coffee News, entitled " A Brief History of Coffee Price Volatility in the ...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Could early identification of students at risk of failure be a bad thing?

One of my Summer Research Scholarship students this year, Jacinda Herring, was working on a project on identifying the characteristics of ...

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