
Interest rates and cost-push fallacies
14 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: monetary policy

Milton Friedman on old fallacies that never die at central banks
12 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, financial economics, great depression, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice
Edward Prescott, Monetary Policy with 100% Reserve Banking: An Exploration
12 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, industrial organisation, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, Robert E. Lucas Tags: real business cycles
Nobel Symposium Emi Nakamura Monetary policy: Conventional and unconventional
12 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics Tags: New Keynesian macroeconomics
Debate on Progress Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton
11 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
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
19th century Bank of England was well on to stigma effects in a banking crisis
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, fisheries economics, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, bank runs, banking crises, banking panics, lender of last resort, monetary policy, screening

Nobel Symposium Kenneth Rogoff Indebtedness of governments, firms, and households
09 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, economics of information, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, macroeconomics, monetary economics, Public Choice, public economics Tags: sovereign debt crises, sovereign defaults
The Myth of the Rational Voter – Bryan Caplan
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of information, economics of regulation, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: anti-foreign bias, anti-market bias, make-work bias, pessimism bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
How an obsession with home ownership can ruin the economy | The Economist
07 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, Edward Prescott, income redistribution, law and economics, macroeconomics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: affordable housing, land supply, zoning





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