Archive
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Sen Warns of Europe’s Well-Meaning Mistakes
May 23, 2012
If proof were needed of the maxim that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the economic crisis in Europe provides it
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Contextualizing one and other @ ESHET 2012
May 21, 2012
My attempt at a double riddle. “I find familiar faces only in unfamiliar places. Who am I? And whom are the faces?” The answer to the first is, I am an academic, to the second, my conference buddies.
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Maynard's Revenge: A Review
May 21, 2012
Below is a revised version of a talk I gave at the New School University, at a conference to launch Lance Taylor’s latest book. The date of the event was April 28, 2011, more than a year ago, and the delay in revision was entirely my fault—overcommitment and pressing deadlines on many fronts. Sorry about that.
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Maynard's Revenge: A Review
May 21, 2012
The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics
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China’s RMB Exodus
May 21, 2012
Will China correct this imbalance by allowing the RMB to appreciate? Or will it dump dollars onto forex markets?
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INET Goes to Paris
May 21, 2012
INET Executive Director Robert Johnson delivered a keynote address at the OECD Forum in Paristoday.
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What are economists for, anyway?
May 20, 2012
Who does the economist serve: powerful interests or society?
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Economics Is Not Math
May 20, 2012
Mathematician Michael Edesess has a dose of reality for economists.
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Calls for Financial Architecture Fix
May 20, 2012
What’s wrong with our economic recovery?
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Joseph Stiglitz, Anya Schiffrin Celebrate Book Releases
May 20, 2012
Attendees at the book party were treated to an assortment of wine, sushi, and intriguing conversation on the rooftop of Schiffrin’s parents’ Upper West Side apartment.
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Working Paper
Grantee paperState-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Policy
May 2012
We investigate the effects of government spending on U.S. economic activity using a threshold version of a structural vector autoregressive model.
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News
How to Kill Financial Regulation…and the Global Economy
May 14, 2012
“While it’s incredibly difficult to get a regulatory reform passed, it’s far easier – and more profitable to politicians – to kill it.
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Regulation? What Regulation?
May 13, 2012
Being the smartest guys in the room doesn’t prevent you from making bad decisions.
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Insights from Bagehot, for these Trying Times
May 11, 2012
Here is a talk I gave recently at Wake Forest University.
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Let me tell you everything
May 7, 2012
Our usual problem in history (of economics) is a lack of information.