…willingness to investigate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of his particular medicine. I want to make something perfectly clear before we go any further. It is fine to disagree with Krugman,…

by Kenneth Thomas New Model Legislation Would be Great First Step Toward Subsidy Reform Yesterday, Good Jobs First released new model legislation to increase the transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of…

I am generally skeptical about the importance of further QE in the USA, but I am definitely not skeptical about the effectiveness of the the leaked European Central Bank plan…

…the effectiveness of monetary policy right now. I note again that you have not identified one advance new Keynesians have made beyond Keynes. The alleged examples include speculation about UK…

…them. A high-functioning nation is the opposite of a high-functioning business. Efficiency for its own sake is dangerous. Demanding immediate profits, or any profits at all, can reduce the effectiveness…

…years, there has been little tendency for market forecasts to move toward Fed forecasts. To increase its effectiveness, any such announcement should be accompanied by concrete actions to push market…

…presented at a couple conferences and now being circulated for comment before publication, measured the effectiveness of the two primary methods of federal securities regulatory and law enforcement: “public” enforcement…

…mostly tried and studied in 3rd world situations? Wouldn’t you think that the advising the proof of effectiveness from these advising economist? Even medicine has acknowledged there is a difference…

…private agents. This is a plausible explanation for the apparent effectiveness of QE1 (the Fed bought mortgage backed securities, commerical paper and made loans to banks). It is one rational…

David Beckworth points to Scott Sumner, who points to Kantoos on the effectiveness of nominal income targeting in Germany. Kantoos’ illustration certainly suggests that the ECB has been successful in…