George Selgin on the New Deal and Recovery (and Relief and Reform)

18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment

TweetWant to get a few hours’ worth of solid learning in less than 35 enjoyable minutes? Listen to my Mercatus Center colleague David Beckworth’s podcast (from October 2022) with George Selgin on the New Deal. Seriously. It will be 34-plus minutes very well spent. George’s book – False Dawn – is forthcoming from the University…

George Selgin on the New Deal and Recovery (and Relief and Reform)

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative | Hoover Institution

15 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags:

Ralph Hawtrey, Part 1: An Overview of his Career

06 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment

One of my goals when launching this blog in 2011 was to revive interest in the important, but unfortunately neglected and largely forgotten, contributions to monetary and macroeconomic theory of Ralph Hawtrey. Two important books published within the last year have focused attention on Ralph Hawtrey: The Federal Reserve: A New History by Robert Hetzel, […]

Ralph Hawtrey, Part 1: An Overview of his Career

What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …

30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment

More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge

29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: ,

John Cochrane — Is It Getting Hot in Here?

28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment

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Bob Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business Cycles 2/5/2007

19 May 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment Tags:

Talking Poverty With Chris Arnade

20 Jan 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: ,

Chris Arnade is the storied author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. He’s also a very cool guy. Last October, we “debated” poverty for the Acton Institute, though it was really more of an… 78 more words

Talking Poverty With Chris Arnade

Introduction to Microeconomics (Lecture 12: Labor and Unions) Murray N. Rothbard

17 Jan 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, Murray Rothbard, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions Tags:

Milton Friedman on Keynesian Economics

26 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, fiscal policy, health economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags:

Good Intentions 1of3 Introduction and Public Schools with Walter Williams

13 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, unemployment, unions, welfare reform Tags: , ,

Walter Williams: Up From the Projects

12 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags:

Expectations and the power of policy

03 Sep 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, business cycles, econometerics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment

From https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2022/with-inflation-front-and-center-work-that-launched-rational-expectations-revolution-still-resonates

Milton Friedman on Keynesian Economics

23 Aug 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: ,

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