Nobel Prize Winner in Economist 1995 – Robert Emerson Lucas
20 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas
The key contributions of Fisher’s Appreciation and Interest (1896)
19 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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What is the money illusion?
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Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society
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in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit
Hayek’s finest paper
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, property rights Tags: The fatal conceit, The meaning of competition, The pretence to knowledge

Interest rates and cost-push fallacies
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Yes Prime Minister on Milton Keynes
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics
Alfred Marshall on superstar wages – Alan Krueger – Rockonomics
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Alfred Marshall, applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, survivor principle, transport economics, urban economics Tags: superstars
Competition Law and the Free Market – The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself – Easterbrook, Ginsberg and Manne
04 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: competition law
Good question from Stephen Williamson
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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“the day I see economists form a wolf pack or use delegitimisation tactics to descend on the rightwinger who uses ec theory to justify bad public policy, or general life cynicism, rather than vs the lefty who complains about him, is the day I’ll take their claims seriously” said David Gaeber
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, Edward Prescott, history of economic thought, macroeconomics

Larry Summers commenting in 1986 on real business cycle theory at https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/qr/qr1043.pdf








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