Showing posts with label inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inequality. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

23/6/21: Covid19 Deaths and Income Inequality

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  An interesting, although intuitively straight forward note on the determinants of Covid19 deaths:  https://twitter.com/youyanggu/status/14...
Monday, June 8, 2020

8/6/20: 30 years of Financial Markets Manipulation

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Students in my course Applied Investment and Trading in TCD would be familiar with the market impact of the differential bid-ask spreads ...
Friday, May 3, 2019

3/5/19: The Rich Get Richer when Central Banks Print Money

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The Netherlands Central Bank has just published a fascinating new paper, titled "Monetary policy and the top one percent: Evidence f...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

8/4/18: Talent vs Luck: Differentiating Success from Failure

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In their paper, "Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure", A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda (25 Feb...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

20/7/16: McKinsey's "Generation Worse"...

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A new study from McKinsey looks at the cross-generational distribution of income as a form of new ‘inequality’, in words of the authors: “...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

26/11/15: Ireland on Inequality Heat Map

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Much has been said about inequality in Ireland. On TV off TV and elsewhere. Much of it is, sadly put, locked out factoids. You see, ineq...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

18/2/15: A Tale of Two Capitalisms & Economics Education

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A recent paper by Bennett, Daniel L., titled " A Tale of Two Capitalisms: Perilous Misperceptions About Capitalism, Entrepreneurship,...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

21/8/2014: Thomas Piketty: Powerful Questions, Questionable Answers

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This is an unedited version of my article for the Village magazine, August-September 2014 Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the T...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

8/6/2014: Piketty - briefly...

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It's a lazy man's way out, but given all the 'Piketty-Smiketty' debates raging on about his errors and errors of those who ...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

8/3/2014: Democracy and Inequality: A Link of Surprising Direction?

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Everything written or co-authored by Daron Acemoglu is worth reading. Everything. And here is an example why. The man does not shy away fr...