…that it’s all just a coincidence. Except they don’t mount a very strong argument for that conclusion. Even Koch-funded Tyler Cowen’s headline (“Why is there superior economic performance under Democratic…
by Joseph Joyce (is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs) Too Much of a Good Thing?…
How low can you go? No… this is not a post about Limbo. It is a post about low interest rates, low inflation, and economic growth. The question is… Can…
…really reflect the failure of our society to value people, community, and basic public goods and infrastructures? The Chimera of the Hybrid Model Our notions of what our economic landscape…
Dan here…Worth reading the whole 12 pages. (Hat tip New Deal democrat) Do economic crises reflect crises in economics? Keynote address, ‘Rethinking Economics’ conference, Stiftverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft/Handelsblatt, Frankfurt…
Economic Cycles Even with the rebound in second quarter growth, first half growth was still under 2%. Moreover, newly revised real GDP data reports even slower growth over the past…
An economic slump or recession is considered a bad thing by economists. They point to Sweden and blame Sweden for raising its interest and causing a recession. “Bad Sweden, Bad…
…popular vote. Prof. Geoffrey Moore, who for decades published the Index of Leading Indicators, and founded the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) in 1993, wrote Leading Economic Indicators: New Approaches…
…out of poverty and gave their governments the right to call for a larger voice in discussions of international economic governance. Therefore it is of no small importance to understand…
by Joseph Joyce The Search for an Effective Macro Policy Economic growth in the advanced economies seems stalled. This summer the IMF projected increases in GDP in these economies of…