Friday, March 16, 2007

The Federal Reserve and the Great Depression

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Did the Federal Reserve fall down on the job and fail to do what it could to stem the Great Depression? Yes. Would things have been better i...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

North, Wallis, and Weingast: Economic History Seminar for March 19

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Economics 211 for Monday: Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast (2007), "A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Hum...
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J. Bradford DeLong (2007), "What Should We Think About When Refounding the International Monetary System?"

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J. Bradford DeLong (2007), "What Should We Think About When Refounding the International Monetary System?" in Richard Samans, Marc...

History as Tragedy: The Peloponnesian War: Hoisted from the Archives

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Atrios is talking about the Kagan family--Yale historian father Donald and neoconservative hack children Fred and Robert. This reminds me th...

Emmanuel Saez Writes in About American Income Inequality Rising Rapidly in 2005

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He says: The IRS has released yesterday the preliminary stats for year 2005 which I have used to extend my [and Thomas Piketty's] s...

In Praise of Keynes's "Tract on Monetary Reform"

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JOHN Maynard Keynes's "Tract on Monetary Reform" may be his best book. It is certainly his best Monetarist book.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The Muffin Joke Is So Funny!

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Jack Balkin says that the muffin joke is so funny: Balkinization : Repeat after me: The Muffin Joke is NOT funny: This article [by John...

Is 1.5 Million Home Foreclosures This Year a Big Number or a Small Number?

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Bob Ivry on the housing bust: Bob Ivry : Foreclosures May Hit 1.5 Million in U.S. Housing Bust: March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Hold on to your as...

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Henry Gonzales lies to Congress: Think Progress : Attorney General Alberto Gonzales assured the Senate Judiciary Committee.... GONZALES:...

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Kash writes: The Street Light: February Jobs Report : [J]ob creation for February. .. was about as expected: "Nonfarm payroll employme...

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Found at Eschaton: Eschaton : Andrea Mitchell, Hardball just now: "They're going to try to really tamp this down and appeal to th...

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I'm sorry I missed this: >The Jefferson Memorial Lectures Committee, on behalf of the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate, cordi...

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Time to get more systematic about multimedia, and set up my video and audio RSS feeds: Morning Coffee Video Podcasts: http://rss.mac.co...

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Morning Coffee Videocast: Cuba--The Dictatorship of the Castro Brothers : MANY praise Cuba for having such a high level of social developme...
Monday, March 12, 2007

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J. Bradford DeLong (2007), "Right from the Start? What Milton Friedman Can Teach Progressives," Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 4 ...