From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/1996/interview-with-edward-c-prescott
Prescott (1996) on the power of central banks
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in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, financial economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics
Alan Manning “Monopsony and the wage effects of migration”
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Walter Block on sex Discrimination
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Infrastructure multipliers: Valerie A. Ramey
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“Central bankers like to see themselves as fighting inflation rather than creating it”
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The chicken and the egg
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From Frontiers of Business Cycle Research 1995
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Valerie Ramey on Stimulus and Multipliers 10/24/2011
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A Monetary History… provided the historical narrative supporting the contention that in many episodes, monetary instability arose independently of the behaviour of nominal income and prices
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Richard Tol argues that – cost wise – emission reduction can be modest
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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