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- What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?
- What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?Economic FreedomI think you picked the wrong economist to be approving of maximum economic freedom. Keynes approved of high levels of government intervention; Adam Smith or Hayek may have served better.RE: What is the Most Economically 'Free' City?Interesting, but I would hardly consider Keynes...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Franco Modigliani and oligopoly
- 1. Some personal recollections I met Franco in 1948 - over half a century ago! - in Chicago, when he was teaching at the University of Illinois, where I had arrived with a research scholarship. He and his wife Serena would often invite me to dinner, and we would go...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Descent with modification: a great-grandson of Charles Darwin's opens new vistas into the voyage of the Beagle
- Born in 1919, Richard Darwin Keynes is one of Charles Darwin's twenty-five great-grandchildren and one of Darwin's hundred or so living descendants. His mother was Margaret Elizabeth Darwin, daughter of Darwin's son George, and his father was Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, a prominent surgeon and the brother of the economist John...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- An economic policy for the fifth long wave*
- In the first part of this paper we recall the main features of the longwaves theory, a theory that, at the present stage of development of economic thought, is in our view the most valuable to understand the present situation and, consequently, offers the best guidance for economic policy. In...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- The commitment of an intellectual: Paul M. Sweezy
- The following brief intellectual biography of Paul Sweezy was drafted in September 2003 shortly before I saw Paul for the last time. It conveys many of the basic facts of his life. But as with all biographies of leading intellectuals it fails to capture the brilliance of his work, which...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- The PetroChina Syndrome: Regulating Capital Markets in the Anti-Globalization Era
- I. INTRODUCTIONAs one of her last acts as Acting Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, in the spring of 2001, Laura Unger threw what the Financial Times called a "bombshell" into the global capital markets.1 Responding to pressure from Congress and an emerging independent political campaign, Chairman Unger issued...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Monetary policy transmission through the consumption-wealth channel
- INTRODUCTION Asset market values react to economic news and policy changes, and consumers react to changes in asset market values. The consumption-wealth channel of monetary policy spells out this mechanism: changes in monetary policy affect asset values, which in turn affect consumer spending on nondurable goods and services. ...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- German monetary history in the first half of the twentieth century.(Statistical Data Included)
- At the end of 1998, the German Bundesbank turned over the administration of monetary policy to the European Central Bank ECB. In the years between World War I and 1998, the Bundesbank had come to embody the modern central bank. What history did Germany traverse to ...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- CLINTON'S BEQUEST.
- THE PROGRESSIVE USES OF FISCAL CONSERVATISM If there is one thing that most everybody agrees upon regarding the ideological legacy of the Clinton presidency, it is that there is none. President Clinton, left and right typically concur, is a man of polling ...
- Research articles 1999-12-06
- Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication.
- The economist, Stanely Fischer discusses the fiftieth anniversary of his economics textbook. Fischer examines the influence of the textbook and discusses the theories behind his work. Dr. Samuel Johnson went to see the revival of his earlier play, Irene, which had been a failure. When Boswell asked him...
- Research articles 1999-09-22
- The forensic economist in the international setting: a reply and new findings. (response to article by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo in this issue, p. 55)
- Only a complete misreading of my 1993 JFE article and of the more extensive companion piece in the Journal of Legal Economics (Weisskoff, July 1993) could have resulted in Professor Salazar's provocative comments. His concerns seem to fall into two categories, data and concepts. ...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Congress and back seat driving: an information theory of the War Powers Resolution.
- Since Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in 1973 over the veto of President Nixon, heated debate has surrounded both the legislation itself and the principles on which it is based.(1) Intelligent opinions differ about many aspects of war powers, but a consensus has developed that...
- Research articles 1996-06-22
- Adam Smith Was No Fan of Free Markets
- Amartya Sen takes on free-market orthodoxy by looking at what its patron saint, Adam Smith, had to say. In Capitalism Beyond the Crisis, Sen uses a Smithian prism to look at three big questions: 1. Do we need a new capitalism? ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Jack Bogle: Why Stocks Will Beat Bonds (and Investors Will Miss Out)
- Vanguard founder and investor advocate Jack Bogle tells us how to invest now and tells the administration how to reform the U.S. financial system. We both should listen. You’ve seen a few downturns in your time. Based on your experience, what’s next? ...
- Articles 2009-06-08
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- What Would Keynes Do, Indeed?
- Former Bush economic advisor N. Gregory Mankiw wrote, in What Would Keynes Have Done? in the New York Times on Sunday, that it's a terrible time for the government to expand deficit spending in the manner being talked about by the Obama Administration. Increased government spending may be a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Work man; Economic history; Skidelsky's Keynes: the final volume.(Books and Arts)(Review)
- JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: FIGHTING FOR BRITAIN, 1937-1946. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: FIGHTING FOR BRITAIN, 1937-1946.
- Research articles 2000-12-09
- Milton Keynes fatal crash -- Appeal for witnesses.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 October 2002-UK Government: Milton Keynes fatal crash -- Appeal for witnesses C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10082002 Were you driving on the A5D dual carriageway in Milton Keynes last Tuesday evening (1 October)? Thames Valley Police and the independent...
- Research articles 2002-10-08
- Police Complaints Authority to supervise investigation into Milton Keynes double fatality.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 October 2002-UK Government: Police Complaints Authority to supervise investigation into Milton Keynes double fatality C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10022002 The independent Police Complaints Authority is to supervise the investigation into a fatal collision that killed two people...
- Research articles 2002-10-02
- Commercial WiMAX unveiled in Milton Keynes.(UNITED KINGDOM)
- ConnectMK has launched a commercial WiMAX service in Milton Keynes, after conducting trials of the wireless broadband technology. This service is being seen as an easy alternative to expensive symmetrical DSL SDSL connections. The connectivity has been provided by Freedom4, which has...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Commercial WiMAX unveiled in Milton Keynes.(TOP NEWS)
- ConnectMK has launched a commercial WiMAX service in Milton Keynes, after conducting trials of the wireless broadband technology. This service is being seen as an easy alternative to expensive symmetrical DSL SDSL connections. The connectivity has been provided by Freedom4, which has been conducing...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
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