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Defending Schumpeter from Krugman
Robert Waldmann Paul Krugman does not think highly of Austrian or liquidationist theories of the business cycle. He recently remade an argument which is hard to refute "the whole notion falls apart when you ask why, say, a housing boom — which requires shifting resources into housing — doesn’t ...
Krugman on the end of trade
blogs.reuters.com — Paul Krugman gave a pleasingly wonkish talk at the World Business Forum today: the attendees with their... Speaker Workbooks will have found it difficult to fill out the Paul Krugman Summary Sheet on page 95, complete with blanks where they are meant to ... (more) Krugman on the end of trade
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Eight Thousand Miles Away, Robert Waldmann Is Thinking About Labor Rents and Business Cycle Asymmetry...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Defending Schumpeter from Krugman: In Schumpeter's story as written [in Business Cycles and Economics of the Recovery Program] there is a bubble with over-investment, the build up of an excessive capital stock, then a recession with low investment until the aggregate capital-labor ratio is brought back down.... ...

Will stimulating nominal aggregate demand solve our problems?
Econbrowser — ... You can find more discussion from Arnold Kling ([1], [2]), Ryan Avent, Robert Waldmann, and Matthew Yglesias.

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