- How did Arthur Henderson's working-class background and Labour Party career shape his approach to disarmament diplomacy?
Labor Economics
The economics of work, wages, and employment.
- What was Léon Jouhaux's central argument connecting labor rights to international peace?
- How did Jouhaux's early work dipping matchsticks in a phosphorus factory shape his later career?
- Why was the International Labour Organization founded as part of a peace settlement?
- What kinds of international labour standards did the ILO establish in its first fifty years?
- What did Schultz mean by calling education and health 'human capital'?
- How did Schultz's idea compare returns on education against returns on physical machinery?
- How did Stigler's work on search costs and information change how economists think prices convey knowledge?
- How did Becker's approach challenge the traditional division of labor between economics and sociology?
- What did the original Phillips curve claim about the relationship between inflation and unemployment?
- What did classical economic models get wrong about how labour markets function?
- What is search friction and why does it explain persistent unemployment?
- How does the DMP matching model help central banks understand the job market?
- What did David Card's New Jersey minimum wage study find about fast-food employment?
- What is the U-shaped curve Claudia Goldin found in American women's labour force participation since the nineteenth century?
- How did Goldin's research reframe the gender wage gap as primarily a story about parenthood rather than discrimination?
- Why is the wage penalty for motherhood sharpest in fields like law, finance, and consulting?