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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 24 days ago
No saving grace
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The Obama administration's "jobs created or saved" is just a way of saying "other things equal" in non-economese.
delong.typepad.com - 24 days ago
And They Say That Allan Meltzer Used to Be a Real Economist...
— delong.typepad.com — Allan Meltzer should be ashamed of himself. Here is the late Milton Friedman, arguing that supporting the... banking system with extra open-market operations in late 1931-early 1932 after the shock of the British abandonment of the gold standard ... (more) And They Say That Allan Meltzer Used to Be a Real ...

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Taking out the Trash
Greg Mankiw's Blog — ... Paul Krugman says I should be ashamed of myself for calling into question Obama administration estimates of how many jobs have been "created or saved." Here is what Paul says, ...

links for 2009-11-02
Economist's View — ... A fruitless clash of economic opposites - Edmund Phelps No saving grace - Paul Krugman Growth Still Not ...

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TRUTH ON THE MARKET — Get your Jones v. Harris fix from (including reactions to oral argument) the Glom and Professor Bainbridge (my earlier thoughts on some economic aspects of the decision here and here ) Kenneth Anderson has been a great addition to the Volokh Conspiracy Are Microsoft, Yahoo and Google really dropping support for Net Neutrality? Krugman attacks Mankiw for claim he never made; Mankiw responds; Krugman does not embarrass easily Pioneers of Law and Economics is available Sports Law Blog supplies the ...

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