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Labor Economics #1 - Sticky Wages
Labor Economics #1 - Sticky Wages by Alex Merced The next few posts I'll be writing will be a series on some aspects of labor economics which will mainly center around wages and upward mobility. In this initial part of the series I'm going to...
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Fri, Aug 13 2010 4:45 PM
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Alex Merced
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Inflation
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John Maynard Keynes
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Labor Economics #2 - Labor Mobility
Labor Economics #2 - Labor Mobility by Alex Merced There is usually a decent job somewhere out there waiting, but the ability for someone to take advatage of that oppotunity also has to do with their willingness and ability to move to where the job is...
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Sat, Aug 14 2010 9:12 AM
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Alex Merced
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Housing
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Labor
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Mobility
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California
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ERISA
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Labor Economics #3 - The Minimum Wage
Labor Economics #3 - The Minimum Wage by Alex Merced One of the most sancrosanct bastions of Labor laws is the minimum wage, and if you want to go beyond this article in learning about it listen to Roger Garrisons lecture on topic from Mises U 2010 ....
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Sat, Aug 14 2010 7:03 PM
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Alex Merced
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liberty
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Labor
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Wealth Transfer
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Minimum Wage
Capitalism, Socialism, and Voluntarism
Capitalism, Socialism, and Voluntarism by Alex Merced People blame all the worlds problems on it's systems of resource management, for in the end that is all that Capitalism and Socialism are, systems to managing scarce resources. Quality of life...
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Mon, Aug 09 2010 12:57 PM
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Alex Merced
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Prices
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Voluntarism
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Anarchism
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Social Net
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Capitalism
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Socialism
Capitalism and Democracy
Capitalism and Democracy by Alex Merced Detractors to Capitalism often will make satire of the idea of "the invisible hand" as if Free Market Capitalist believe there is an actual invisible hand. The Invisible hand is a metaphor for much more...
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Wed, Aug 11 2010 1:38 PM
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Alex Merced
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Regulation
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Individualism
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Trading Markets
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Capitalism
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Democracy
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Individuality
The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI
The Federal Reserve, Price Stability, and CPI by Alex Merced While here at LibertyisNow.com I've been discussing several economic and philosohical concepts regarding individualism and Liberty, no war is won over night yet strewn across many hard fought...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 12:59 PM
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Alex Merced
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Federal Reserve
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Austrian Economics
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1870
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1920
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Andrew Jackson
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Macroeconomics
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CPI
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Martin Van Buren
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Microeconomics
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Price Stability
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History
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1913
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1929
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Full Employment
Elaborating on the Austrian Time Preference Theory
Elaborating on the Austrian Time Preference Theory by Alex Merced I write this article after listening to Robert Murphys lecture Capital and Interest from Mises U 2010 While Listening to this having heard explanations of Time Preference theory plenty...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010 10:44 PM
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Alex Merced
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Austrian
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Time Horizon
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Interest Rates
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Preferences
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Time
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Anarcho Capitalist
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Mises U
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Business Cycle Theory
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Robert Murphy
Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents)
Addendum to Robert Murphy's Lecture (My 2 Cents) by Alex Merced This is just some comments to add my two cents to Robert Murphys Responses to Critics of Austrian Economics . Critic: How come unemployment wasn't the worst in the states that had...
Published
Mon, Aug 02 2010 9:32 PM
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Alex Merced
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Economy
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Innovation
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Statistics
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Standard of Life
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quality
A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market
A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market by Alex Merced Listen to Peter Kleins Lecture here You've might have read in previous posts on Liberty is Now that I am one of the Libertarians who criticize corporations role in...
Published
Wed, Aug 04 2010 9:52 AM
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Alex Merced
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C Corporations
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Free Market
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Limited Liability
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Limited Partnerships
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Peter Klein
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Libertarian
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Governance
A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship
A Respone to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship by Alex Merced This is a Response to Peter Kleins Lecture on Entrepeneurship In this lecture Peter Klein does a great job discussing different aspects of defining the entrepeneur, so to sum up two of...
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Fri, Aug 06 2010 11:36 AM
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Alex Merced
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Schumpeter
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Entrepeneurship
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Mises U
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Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation
Summarizing Jorg Guido Hulsmann's Lecture on Deflation by Alex Merced Listen to his Mises U Lecture on Deflation One of my favorite topics and debates is the Inflation/Deflation debate, of Hulsmann has written extensively about putting him in my top...
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Sat, Aug 07 2010 10:53 AM
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Alex Merced
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Prices
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Austrian Economics
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Politics
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Structure of Production
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1843
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1870
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1920
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1839
Labor Economics #4 - Unemployment Insurance
Labor Economics #4 - Unemployment Insurance by Alex Merced These days unemployment insurance has become more of an issue than it has in recent times. The debate on this issue seems to be misguided. To really understand the unemployment insurance issue...
Published
Sun, Aug 15 2010 8:45 PM
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Alex Merced
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Government
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Libertarian
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Insurance
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Unemployment Insurance
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Deposit Insurance
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Externalities
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Internalize
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Anarchy
A Response to Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast
A Response to Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast by Alex Merced This is a Response to THIS episode of Alan Harvey's Demand Side Podcast As an anarcho-capitalist aspiring austrian economist , one may ask why would I bother consuming such media such...
Published
Tue, Aug 24 2010 11:48 AM
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Alex Merced
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Keynesian
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Austrian Economics
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Podcast
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Alan Harvey
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Demand Side
Accumulation of Capital and Knowledge
Accumulation of Capital and Knowledge Accumulation of Capital and Knowledge by Alex Merced While I've discussed capital accumulation a couple of times before I though I'd re-explain this concept and it's implications again since it's so...
Published
Sat, Aug 28 2010 1:40 PM
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Alex Merced
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Richer
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Stupid
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Consumption
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Poor
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Genius
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Rich