Robert Hetzel – “New Keynesianism in central banking: friend or foe?”
08 May 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, great recession, history of economic thought, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
The power of tax smoothing
25 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Scott Freeman: Green pieces of paper cannot substitute for the real capital that banking provides
24 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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“Economic Policy and Growth of Nation” – by Prof. Finn Kydland
24 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, growth disasters, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: real business cycles
Veteran lefty conceded over two decades of real wages growth in @Dompost
23 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, economic history, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: pessimism bias, regressive left

The Lucas critique summarised by Freeman and Champ
22 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas


Margaret Jacobson on how Roosevelt jump started the #economy in 1933
20 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Freeman and Champ explain the Lucas revolution
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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Drowning in The Great Enrichment
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, liberalism, libertarianism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment

Milton Friedman Interview with Dallas Fed President Richard W. Fisher
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
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Robert Lucas: Labor Reform and Crisis Recovery
28 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: employment law
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