
Lucas: New Keynesian economics doesn’t seem to make contact with the questions that got us interested in macroeconomics in the first place.
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Your work on the US found that productivity shocks explain most of the cyclical fluctuations the economy has experienced. Does this finding have any bearing on the nature of public policy?
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What about the recession of 1980-81?
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The view that technology shocks, those affecting production opportunities, are the major driving force behind business cycles, accounting for about 70 percent of these fluctuations.
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Prescott (1996) on the power of central banks
15 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
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Money Under Laissez-Faire George Selgin
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The Fed’s Dismal Record | George A. Selgin
10 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
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George Selgin / Central Banking and Financial Crises
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George Selgin – replace the Fed
07 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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Did the New Deal End the Great Depression? (with George Selgin)
06 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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George Selgin on the Fed 12/06/2010
03 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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Webinar: John H. Cochrane on the role of central banks
02 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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The History, Present, and Future of Central Banks, Feat. George Selgin
30 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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From Modeling Monetary Economies Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman, Joseph Haslag
29 Nov 2021 Leave a comment


Why Was the Fed Created?” with George Selgin — Ron Paul Fed Lecture Series, Pt 1/3
27 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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