Category: Economics
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Job growth visualization updated
Government jobs in Wichita have been growing, but the private sector lags behind.
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A learning opportunity for Wichita
Next month the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce brings a speaker to town who might be able to offer Wichita helpful advice.
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Business employment dynamics, a visualization
Besides the usual employment and jobs numbers delivered each month, there are other interesting statistics gathered about business firms and workers.
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Seen and unseen on display
The lesson of the book “Economics in One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt is this: “The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
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Trends in Kansas entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is important for a growing and dynamic economy. The performance of Kansas in entrepreneurial activity is not high, compared to other states.
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Do economic development incentives work?
On the three major questions — Do economic development incentives create new jobs? Are those jobs taken by targeted populations in targeted places? Are incentives, at worst, only moderately revenue negative? — traditional economic development incentives do not fare well.
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Job creation and the snake oil of tax incentives
Job creation and the snake oil of tax incentives
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‘Economics in One Lesson’ explains today’s economics
Economics In One Lesson, first published in 1946 and reissued by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, explains common fallacies (false or mistaken ideas) that are particularly common in the field of economics and public policy.
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Research on economic development incentives
All of the aforementioned studies, which find business location decisions to be favorably influenced by targeted tax incentives, also conclude that the benefits to the communities that offered them were less than their costs.
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Local economic development incentives: The economic perspective
Economist Russell Sobel spoke in Wichita on the topic of local economic development incentives.
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Minimum wage laws: Helpful or harmful?
What are the unseen effects of minimum wage laws?