baselinescenario.com - 12/31/2008
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Or, why human beings are bad investors.
Free Exchange has Anthony Gottlieb’s recollections of interviewing Bernie Madoff about financial regulation:
at the time he came across merely as calm, strikingly rational, devoid of ego, and the last person you would expect to make your ...
Baseline Scenario, April 7, 2009
baselinescenario.com 4/7/2009 — Baseline Scenario for 4/7/2009 (9am): Post-G20 Edition
Peter Boone, Simon Johnson, and James Kwak, copyright of the authors.
This long-overdue (and hopefully widely-awaited) version of our Baseline Scenario focuses largely on the United States, both because of the volume of activity in the ...
Baseline Scenario, 12/15/08
baselinescenario.com 12/15/2008 — Baseline Scenario for 12/15/2008: pdf version
Peter Boone, Simon Johnson, and James Kwak, copyright of the authors
Summary
1) The world is heading into a severe slump, with declining output in the near term and no clear turnaround in sight.
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Our Energy Problems Are All Based In Human Nature
businessinsider.com 8/24/2009 — iraq oil field fire The more I probe the hardest questions about the future of energy and our best shot at sustainability, the more I am convinced that the real questions are not about technology, but about human nature. We have all the technology we ...
FT.com / Markets - Insight: Regulating human nature
ft.com 7/21/2009 — The push for financial regulatory reform has highlighted an important debate surrounding the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH), the idea that market prices are rationally determined and fully reflect all available information. If true, the EMH ...
Baseline Blocking
baselinescenario.com 3/18/2009 — A reader reports his firm has blocked Internet access to BaselineScenario.com, and his requests to change this policy have so far gone unheeded.
Access to our site has been blocked in the past by China - for reasons that should be obvious (if you want to pretend there is no global crisis). ...
Propaganda, human rights and the US media
VoxEU.org 12/16/2008 — Nancy Qian , 15 December 2008 Respect for human rights is gaining in importance in international agreements, but who is to judge human rights performance? This column discusses new evidence that suggests national governments are not good judges. It ...
Economists: more human than you think!
tvhe.co.nz 4/9/2009 — I like the preface to Bryan Caplan’s new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids . He says:
I doubt that “They’ll help me out when I’m old,” has ever been a good reason to have kids. Love tends to run downhill; as an old saying ruefully observes, “One ...
Baseline Scenario, 11/10/08
baselinescenario.com 11/13/2008 — Baseline Scenario, November 10, 2008
By Peter Boone, Simon Johnson, and James Kwak, copyright of the authors
The Baseline Scenario is our periodic overview of the current state of the global economy and our policy proposals. It includes two ...
Human Action at Sixty
blog.mises.org 3/12/2009 — In September of 2009, it will be sixty years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action, one of the truly great "classics" of modern economics. Not only among Austrian economists but also for a growing number of other people, Mises's ...
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