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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know…
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels…
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However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't…
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to…
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side…
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is…
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I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough…
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In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the…
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group…
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…
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First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their…
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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever…
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In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically…
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he…
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only…
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only…
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It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic;…
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