Protected: Economic Distress Index Back Over 60
Posted in News on 21 December 2009
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Posted in News on 21 December 2009
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The House That Uncle Sam Built
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 12,867 views and 20 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for ...
Posted in Document on 1 December 2009
Stats: 12,867 views and 20 Comments By Steven Horwitz & Peter Boettke The Great Recession (or the Great Hangover) that began in 2008 did not have to happen. Its causes and consequences are not mysterious. Indeed, this particular and very painful episode affirms what the best nonpartisan economists have tried to tell our politicians and policy-makers for ...
Keynesian Economics and the “Market Test”
Posted in Not So Fast! on 27 May 2009
Stats: 1,080 views and 3 Comments When I was in graduate school, some professors insisted that Austrian economics “failed the market test” of academic economics. Now one must consider that the “market test” is acceptance, so what they really were saying is that Austrian economics was not accepted because it was not accepted, which is not ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 27 May 2009
Stats: 1,080 views and 3 Comments When I was in graduate school, some professors insisted that Austrian economics “failed the market test” of academic economics. Now one must consider that the “market test” is acceptance, so what they really were saying is that Austrian economics was not accepted because it was not accepted, which is not ...
The Fallacy of Composition
Posted in Not So Fast! on 22 January 2009
Stats: 1,837 views and 8 Comments After covering last week the Fallacy of Collective Terms by Lawrence Reed, today I discuss the “Fallacy of Composition.” Reed says: This error also involves individuals. It holds that what is true for one individual will be true for all others. The example has often been given of one who stands up ...
Posted in Not So Fast! on 22 January 2009
Stats: 1,837 views and 8 Comments After covering last week the Fallacy of Collective Terms by Lawrence Reed, today I discuss the “Fallacy of Composition.” Reed says: This error also involves individuals. It holds that what is true for one individual will be true for all others. The example has often been given of one who stands up ...
