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Friday, February 28, 2014

Say's Paradoxe and the Paradox of Jean-Baptiste Say

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Ces moyens, en quoi consistent-ils ? En d'autres valeurs, d'autres produits, fruits de leur industrie, de leurs capitaux, de leurs ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Say's Bye-Law

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Il est bon de remarquer qu’un produit terminé offre, dès cet instant, un débouché à d’autres produits pour tout le montant de sa valeur. En...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Jean-Baptiste Say Did Not Believe In Say's Law

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There has been a lot of discussion recently on the econoblogosphere and the History of  Economics list about Say's Law, much of it quite...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Fred Hiatt Doubles Down On Dissing Obama Over Social Security Indexation

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Two days ago I dissed Washington Post's Editorial Page Editor, Fred Hiatt, for attacking President Obama for dropping the proposal to c...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

WaPo's Fred Hiatt Loses His Cookies Over Obama Abandoning Chained CPI For Social Security Indexation

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Several commentators have already applauded President Obama for not including a proposal to use the C-CPI-U (aka "chained CPI") pr...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Krugman on HearSay Economics

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"The fact is that the fallacy Keynes called Say’s Law was and is a powerful force in economic discourse, seriously hampering our abili...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

On Cap & Trade and the Price of Emissions

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Mark Thoma featured a very interesting discussion of the lack of political will to impose either Pigou taxes or cap & trade by Jeff Fra...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Senator Jeff Flake – NPR Free Rider

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Paige Lavender provides us with this tidbit: Despite voting against providing federal funding for National Public Radio while serving in ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

The Jilted and the Landless

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Britain has gone to pot and its the fault of the baby boomer generation says two media journalists (Ed Howker from 'The Spectator' m...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Paul Krugman Incorrectly Claims Credit For Calling Worsening Income Distribution "Fractal"

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Paul Krugman has just claimed primacy in identifying a lengthening upper tail in income distibution to mean that income distribution is ...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Pseudonym 'Myrtle Blackwood'

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I'm writing under a pseudonym 'Myrtle Blackwood' (the names of two of Tasmania's most popular trees) in order to avoid name ...
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Nelder: Peak Oil Isn't Dead

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Chris Nelder's article: ' Peak oil isn't dead; it just smells that way ' is a helpful and relatively recent update on the p...
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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Does Romneycare Tell US About What The New CBO Report Means For Employment?

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Maybe, but not necessarily. So, we have just had one of the worst outbreaks of misreporting of a careful study, followed up by a whole new...
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Will Future Fed Policy Be Driven By Behavioral Macroeconomics?

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Arguably it already is, although this has not been commented on particularly by many, but with the accession of Janet Yellen to be Fed Chair...
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What the CBO Really Said About Obamacare and Future Employment

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Did Dylan Scott really scoop economist bloggers as he refuted the latest GOP spin: They had a new talking point: President Obama's hat...
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