The Money Illusion
21 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Or to give the book its full title, The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession and the Future of Monetary Policy.
I was engrossed in the 2008/09 recession – and the associated financial crises – at the time it happened, as an official at the New Zealand Treasury, and it must have been very early in the piece that I started reading Professor Scott Sumner’s then new blog, also The Money Illusion. I’m not a regular reader now, but found much of what Sumner had to say about the conduct of monetary policy – mostly in the US – stimulating and thought-provoking, even (perhaps especially) when I didn’t end up agreeing. So I was keen buyer when his 400 page book appeared.
It is an interesting mixture of a book – partly textbook, partly personal intellectual autobiography, and partly a tract championing a different approach to policy…
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in defence economics, Marxist economics Tags: Churchill, free speech, political correctness, World War II
The coal explosion
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Titles of British Monarchs: Part I.
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
This is a list of titles of Kings and Queens of the Kingdoms of Wessex, Anglo-Saxons and England prior to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
After the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain many small kingdoms arose. The Kingdom we will address is the Kingdom of Wessex, also known as the Kingdom of the West Saxons. Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in 927.
The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, but this may be a legend.
Cerdic is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first King of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent Kings of Wessex were each claimed by the Chronicle to descend in some manner from Cerdic.
Arms of the Kingdom…
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Every scam has one of these red flags: ex-con man Frank Abagnale
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, movies
#OTD #COVID19
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in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics, vaccines
Your driving future
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in law and economics, property rights, transport economics Tags: common law, driverless cars, tort law
William Nordhaus – ECB Conference on Monetary Policy – 19 October 2020
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, public economics Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading
What They Really Had Planned for Apollo
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: moon landings
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours | David Friedman
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, economics of crime, history of economic thought, law and economics, property rights
After Dodd Frank: John H. Cochrane
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, property rights
The shooting range where you fire over a busy road
20 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, law and economics Tags: gun control, Switzerland
Apocalypse Never: Environmental Alarmism and Climate Change
19 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
Dr. Jordan Peterson and author Michael Shellenberger exchange ideas about the Apocalyptic Environmentalism that is getting mainstream coverage. Shellenberger also sheds light on the true impact of climate change and the theory of nuclear peace.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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