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economistsview.typepad.com - 1/5/2009
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The myth of the riskometer - voxeu.org CRE Crash Spreading - Calculated Risk Cheat, Pray, Love - James Surowiecki Fed Officials Worry Inflation Rates Could Ease Too Much - RTE Who should get the federal stimulus funds - Ed Glaeser - Boston Globe Obama Eyes $310 Billion ...
economistsview.typepad.com - 1/7/2009
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— economistsview.typepad.com — Is the new economic geography passé? - voxeu.org Why Wait to Raise Top Tax Rates? - Consider... the Evidence Neglected Stimulus Ideas - Jeff Grogger Stimulus arithmetic (wonkish but important) - Paul Krugman Utah Explores Antitrust ... (more) links for 2009-01-07
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economistsview.typepad.com - 1/12/2009
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— economistsview.typepad.com — Why there's so little good evidence that policy works - Nick Rowe Social agency and rational choice... - Understanding Society We're Borrowing Like Mad. Can the U.S. Pay It Back? - washingtonpost.com The Case for Bigger Government - ... (more) links for 2009-01-11
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marginalrevolution.com - 1/7/2009
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— marginalrevolution.com — 1. H5N1 update, per reader request ; there is more here . 2. Me on fiscal stimulus... on NPR . 3. What is the 11th best job ? 4. Can you use hypocrisy to change people's behavior ? (more) Assorted links

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EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty:  Against the Big Stimulus

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Against the Big Stimulus
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — ... (pointer from Mark Thoma ), I decided that it is time to come out firmly against a large fiscal stimulus. Instead, I would prefer a small stimulus. The case for a large stimulus appears to be based on the notion that small stimulus might fail completely, while large stimulus might succeed. This might be true if there are increasing returns to fiscal stimulus or there are threshold effects of fiscal stimulus. I think it is fair to say that the case for increasing returns or threshold effects is not well established either theoretically or empirically. On the other side of the ...

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