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contra Krugman

…The concept is inconsistent with hysteresis. OJ Blanchard and LH Summers are definitely Keynesians. They presented a model without a natural rate in 1986. I don’t know about Blanchard but…

Very Rude Comments

…A model in which businessmen with rational expectations increase investment and production because of a spending cut is not easy to write. My guess is that it would be a…

Insurance and Birth Control

…contraception to a free-market business model, though, as I have indicated, he isn’t even understanding that properly. The proper focus also includes the high costs of the externalities that he…

Does Latvia Give Us Any Clues?

…about the Latvian economy. Authors Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray highlight the Latvian experience with internal devaluation, which may prove to be a case study for the current Eurozone model

Saving Equals … Inventory?

…[the] accounting [methods developed in the 30s by Kuznets and company to model production of goods and services the national economy].” But that aside. If people spend less than producers…