Filling in the Gaps: Next Steps for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Real ESG
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If you care about corporate social impact, start measuring consumer surplus. From the NBER:An Economic View of Corporate Social ImpactHunt Allcott, Giovanni Montanari, Bora Ozaltun & Brandon TanWORKING PAPER 31803ISSUE DATE October 2023The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies’ social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the…
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Inflation, Deflation and Debt
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unpleasant arithmetic hyperinflation
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Creative destruction
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Just watched a documentary on Bernie Madoff and his gullible investors
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Creative destruction
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Almanac: Charles Ponzi and his “Ponzi Scheme”
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Baby Busts and Bank Crashes: A Conversation with Demographer Nicholas Eb…
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in applied price theory, economic history, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, population economics Tags: baby bust, economics of banking
Bernie Madoff: The Greatest Con in History
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The risk the Greens’ wealth tax poses to our economy
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment
Creative destruction
09 Jul 2023 1 Comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction

How Congress Gets Rich from Insider Trading
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in economics of crime, financial economics, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: efficient markets hypothesis, insider trading
Dropping Money from Helicopters: John Cochrane on Inflation
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