Economic History
epub |eng | 2020-02-29 | Author:George P. Shultz & John B. Taylor

CHART 5. FEDERAL FUNDS RATE VS. TAYLOR RULE. We can use the Taylor rule to illustrate comments made by Milton Friedman about monetary policy choices made in the 1970s versus ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 15,2020 )
epub |zho | 2007-03-14 | Author:Gregory Mankiw [Mankiw, Gregory]

* * * welfare government programs that supplement the incomes of the needy * * * A common criticism of welfare programs is that they create incentives for people to ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Todd Buchholz

Keynes and spending your way out of a recession In times of economic downturn, people often limit their spending and put money aside in case the situation gets worse. However, ...
( Category: Economic History March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harold L. Vogel

54Fabozzi et al. (2014, pp. 7–10). 55On probabilistic predictions, Fischer Black in Black (1986) wrote “Noise makes it very difficult to test either practical or academic theories about the way ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-12 | Author:Maddison, Angus;

The Napoleonic Invasion and its Impact, 1798–1805 The political and socioeconomic order in Egypt was transformed by the French invasion and occupation of 1798–1801. It shattered the corrupt and incompetent ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 13,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Laura Chiaramonte

4.5 The Functioning of the Interbank Market During the Financial Crisis For almost half a century, interbank markets were considered an example of efficiency and self-regulation. Liquidity was abundant, counterparty ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anneke van Mosseveld

Fig. 7.5Cotton production in Australia, 1920–2000. Note: Fig. 7.4 is a close-up view of a section of Fig. 7.5. The latter depicts billions of pounds of cotton produced, making it ...
( Category: Economic History March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Michel Chevalier [Chevalier, Michel]

Sect. III.: Lines of Communication along the Atlantic. First Line. Inland Channels by the Sounds and Bays along the Atlantic. Upon examining the coast of the United States from Boston ...
( Category: Economic History March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Harald Hagemann,Stephan Seiter,Eugen Wendler & Seiter , Stephan & Wendler, Eugen

9.4. Hansemann on railway regulation4 In a treatise written in 1837 entitled “The Railways and their Shareholders in their Relation to the State” (henceforth cited as “Railways”) Hansemann investigated whether ...
( Category: Theory March 11,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-07 | Author:Ellen Meiksins Wood

ENCLOSURE This brings us to the most famous redefinition of property rights: enclosure. Enclosure is often thought of as simply the fencing in of common land, or of the ‘open ...
( Category: History & Theory March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard E. Wagner

Who Makes Constitutional Rules? A public choice approach to constitutional decision-making must recognize that an elite few are in the position of actually designing constitutional rules. Even the design of ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-05 | Author:Walter Bagehot [Bagehot, Walter]

II. But, as has been explained, the Bank of England is bound, according to our system, not only to keep a good reserve against a time of panic, but to ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Tanina Rostain & Milton C. Regan, Jr. [Rostain, Tanina]

9 Lowering the Bar The tax shelter crisis almost certainly generated the largest number of criminal prosecutions against lawyers in connection with any set of events in United States history. ...
( Category: Corporate March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Simon Reid-Henry [Reid-Henry, Simon]

Amidst all this double-speak it is no surprise that Western leaders struggle to cling to the moral high ground. Yet they are reluctant to abandon the position altogether, since it ...
( Category: Theory March 10,2020 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty

Collective Learning and Future Prospects for Taxing Wealth All signs are that this long history is far from over. The existing system is a consequence of sociopolitical processes shaped primarily ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 10,2020 )