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Decimate or Alienate

…“leftists” and the second “centrists.” “Centrists” is not as accurate as “people who care more about the value of insurance company shares than equity or efficiency and who are willing…

Fairness as a concern of economics

…economic theories of fairness do the authors suggest merit consideration? They highlight socilogy’s equity theory of exchanges, which consider far more than the monetary value of the counterparties’ positions, adding…

The Internet and the Productivity Speedup

…wave. Corporate predators who converted huge amounts of equity to debt had to be ruthless to survive. Current top management decided they had to do what a predator would do…

Watch What I Do…..

…that increased parent equity provisions around the time of the tax holiday … had significantly higher levels of repatriations. This pattern suggests that the domestic operations of U.S. MNEs were…

Leona Helmsley Omnibus Tax Reform Act of 2009

…of this as a package? And all with arguments stemming from economic equity and efficiency in order to get majority support? Billionaires would never have to pay a dime in…

Money Metric Welfare and "Economic Efficiency"

…value as statements about EV and other statements about how things are good or bad. We can call EV efficiency and note that we also care about equity. All of…

DI: the Sick Man of Social Security

equity there is not much payoff attacking people in wheelchairs or on oxygen or with pacemakers. So if we are not willing to cut benefits to DI recipients or to…

Back-of-the-Envelope: Making Sense of TARP

…that this won’t revitalise the assets themselves and I will (rightly) note that option markets rather saved the equity markets in 1987, for instance. You will note that I am…