... on the problems (particularly wasteful bureaucratisation) and virtues of the UN. Useful February 2009 speech by senior Bank of England official on why bank stress-testing failed (pdf). The European monetary union is having the sort of negative effects critics said it would. Symposium of views on whether central banks should target (pdf) asset prices. Suggesting that NZ Labour is mistaken...

50 Books : December

.... Wright traces our national debt back before the Revolution. Few in America had any concept of economics; even the ones that did could scarce help the situation, for poor Robert Morris ended up in ...'t demand our politicians to begin taking fiscal responsibility again, and allow the Fed to regulate the monetary conditions of this country correctly. We were only able to fully pay off our debt once (...

What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?

... the universal contemporary resort to "economism," the invocation of economics in all discussions of public affairs. For the last... philosophy had been obscured in public debates by classical economics. Beveridge's question applies with equal force today. Note... contrast to the confident nostrums of classical and neoclassical economics, Keynes would insist upon the essential unpredictability of human...

Economic links

... the official story about the bailout . Paper arguing for monetary stimulus by (pdf) the major central banks. Brad Delong (and Matt Yglesias) are impressed . Monetary stimulus as the pro-market response . About the politics of monetary stimulus. About the debate between economists on monetary stimulus and unemployment. The US Federal Government is facing mounting debt problems :...

Cutting through a Blanket of Fog: Flashback Two Decades ((Ross Perot, economics, GM, corporate philo

...explain why that is -- you don't get my money. If you don't design a car that anyone in the world needs or for which a multibillion-dollar infrastructure will be needed to make it actually competitive in a monetary or personal sense with the current crop of vehicles, one of which I already own -- you don't get my money. Too many people said, "You don't get my money." Again, 1988. This was all ...

Culture Fail: The Secret

... power of positive thinking. You have to come up with a unique approach, now that religion, economics, philosophy, psychology, and even quantum physics have all been taken into a back alleyway and mugged for ... "fleeting" in regards to The Secret is that the Law of Attraction pledges success in monetary needs, relationships, and business without asking for you to input a little more than "energy" ...

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...an independent government agency that conducts monetary policy, which means it sets ... experience was chairing Princeton's economics department; he liked to joke that... and English — before settling on economics. But he quickly became an ... Greenspan Fed and its loose monetary policies. He suggested that raising ... measure allowing congressional audits of monetary policy, which Bernanke believes would ...

Gift fic for nyctea62442

...written for class at the back of their minds. Junno graduated as a dance major with minors in economics and mathematics.         “So did Jin,” Junno grimaces. “Well, I did pick up the guitar last year...important deciding factor. It sells beer at a cheap price too, which made up for Jin extorting monetary contributions for his furniture fund; he doesn’t need four chairs to sit on. (“Keep stuffing ...

News Clips

... and Robert Evans, professor at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research’s Department of Economics. Marina Pascali is a Dallas-based health care consultant. Abstract To examine the extent to which... from the United States, even at favorable prices. First, patients may resist absorbing the monetary and nonmonetary costs of travel to the United States. Second, Canadian purchasers of U.S....

Nonfiction: One Nation Under Debt

... section, but really should be considered an historical economics book. Wright traces America's monetary policies back to Great Britain and Holland, the ... experienced high inflation. There was little to no monetary control, made only worse when the British counterfeited ... War of 1812 was fought without means for monetary policy, and the country felt the effects. President...