Tag: Employment

• Free markets are an antidote to taste discrimination

  I have previously written about the detrimental effects of rational discrimination in employment. While this makes good sense for any one employer and his employees (because no-one wants an unproductive colleague) it is damaging to every employer and employee because it reduces the number and skills of possible employees. The opposite of rational discrimination (irrational discrimination) is…

  Dr James Bayley

  04/03/2015

  Economics

  Discrimination, Economics, Employment, taste discrimination

• Rational discrimination in employment

  This is a rather odd post for me. Typically I am posting about Cloud and Project Management but I occasionally branch out into economics and this is such an occasion. Last night I attended CloudBase which was held at Hackney Community College. The principal Ian Ashman gave a good introduction to the work of his…

  Dr James Bayley

  09/09/2011

  Business models

  Discrimination, Education, Employment, Minority group, rational discrimination

• A review of the 2010 PCG Freelance Lecture by James Bellini

  I went to inaugural Freelance Lecture, held in the Stationers’ hall by the PCG last night. Sue Lawley was a charming and wonderfully effective chairman but I am afraid that although the speaker Dr Bellini is a “leading futurologist” he seemed to lack an understanding of the role of technology in our past or present.…

  Dr James Bayley

  24/11/2010

  Business models, ElephantPM, PRINCE2, Project Management

  Ave Maria Lane, Business, Employment, Freelancer, Nature of the Firm, Ronald Coase, Social Sciences, Sue Lawley