blog.mises.org - 1/27/2009
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The Arlington (Va.) Connection reports that Congressman Jim Moran convened an "emergency meeting of local leaders" last week to discuss the best way to carve up funds from the yet-to-be-passed Democratic "stimulus" package:
The bill, which was introduced last week, will contain more than ...
The Keynesian moment
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Greg has this exactly right:
IF you were going to turn to only one economist to understand the problems facing the economy, there is little doubt that the economist would be John Maynard Keynes. Although Keynes died more than a half-century ago, his ...
The Spirit of 76!
likelihoodofconfusion.com 8/26/2009 — Counterfeit Chic’s Knockoff News is back in its 76th edition, with all due credit being given yours truly, and everyone else paying cash.
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The Mature Keynesian Perspective
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 1/27/2009 — Via NYU prof Mario Rizzo , here is John Maynard Keynes of 1942, six years after The General Theory : Organized public works, at home and abroad, may be the right cure for a chronic tendency to a deficiency of effective demand. But they are not ...
Does mercantilism work in a Keynesian world?
rodrik.typepad.com 12/6/2008 — Yes it does. And not just in theory, but also in practice. The evidence comes from the 1930s, and from the work of Ben Bernanke himself (along with other scholars like Barry Eichengreen). The important finding is that countries that devalued ...
Can the US economy afford a Keynesian stimulus?
blogs.ft.com 1/5/2009 — Economic policy is based on a collection of half-truths. The nature of these half-truths changes occasionally. Economics as a scholarly discipline consists in the periodic rediscovery and refinement of old half-truths. Little progress has been ...
How I Became a Keynesian
tnr.com 9/23/2009 — Until last September, when the banking industry came crashing down and depression loomed for the first time in my lifetime, I had never thought to read The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money , despite my interest in economics. I knew ...
Economist: Keynesian principles - Keynesian principles
economist.com 3/20/2009 — The closing statements are in. Brad DeLong concludes by taking on Luigi Zingales's question: "What is the market failure?" Mr DeLong believes that monetary policy is the preferred means of keeping nominal income stable. But when expansionary monetary ...
Some unpleasant Keynesian arithmetic
rodrik.typepad.com 12/5/2008 — How much of a boost to economic activity will a fiscal stimulus provide? For those who believe that we have entered a Keynesian world of shortage of aggregate demand--me included--the answer depends on the Keynesian multiplier. The size ...
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