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Next Steps for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
18 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Speaking of supply bottlenecks
18 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
A New Theory on What Causes Inflation with Economist John Cochrane
16 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Freeman and Champ explain the Lucas revolution
15 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment

Israel 1983: A bout of unpleasant monetarist arithmetic
13 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, budget deficits, economic history, financial economics, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: hyperinflation
Thomas Sargent pioneered the fiscal theory of the price level by studying both the end of hyper-inflations and moderate inflations
07 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics

From Stopping Moderate Inflations: The Methods of Poincaré and Thatcher (1982) by Thomas Sargent
Tutino and Zarazaga on why the fiscal theory of the price level is so compelling! Quantity theory struggles to explain the sudden end of hyperinflations and the failure of previous stabilisation attempts
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment
Friedman and the process of inflation
28 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in Armen Alchian, economic history, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics


Fiscal theory of the price level = inflation ultimately comes from government debt, as opposed to the central bank printing money
25 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in Adam Smith, financial economics, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics
Milton Friedman Speaks: Money and Inflation
03 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
Prescott shows a lot of contracting since the end of the tech bubble
27 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, Edward Prescott, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: real business cycles

Money Under Laissez-Faire George Selgin
15 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy
The Fed’s Dismal Record | George A. Selgin
10 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy








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