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Tyler Cowen on the gold standard
Here is Tyler Cowen on the gold standard: “The most fundamental argument against a gold standard is that when the relative price of gold is go up, that creates deflationary pressures on the general...
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Guest blog: Tyler Cowen is wrong about gold (By Blake Johnson)
In a recent post I commented on Tyler Cowen’s reservations about the gold standard on his excellent blog Marginal Revolution. In my comment I invited to dialogue between Market Monetarists and gold...
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NGDP level targeting – the true Free Market alternative
Tyler Cown a couple of days ago put out a comment on “Why doesn’t the right-wing favor looser monetary policy?” Tyler has three answers to his own question: 1. There is a widespread belief that...
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MRUniversity – join now!
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok have written one of the best economics textbooks out there and now they are introducing the Marginal Revolution University. Is is how the gentlemen introduces...
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Paul Krugman warns against fiscal stimulus
This is Paul Krugman on the effectiveness on fiscal policy and why fiscal “stimulus” will in fact not be stimulative: “The US is currently engaged in the largest peacetime fiscal stimulus in history,...
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The trillion dollar coin is an utterly idiotic idea
Following US political debate these days is like following a bad parody of a third world banana republic and even though I the deepest respect for Americans and US in general I must say it is hard not...
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Answering Tyler’s question on Japan with old blog post
Here is Tyler Cowen on Twitter: Still not seeing much discussion of 4.1% unemployment rate in Japan, would love to see “jump start” defined. What Tyler is basically saying is that there really is not...
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The Turkish demonstrations – and the usefulness of the AS/AD framework
Peter Dorman has a blog post that have gotten quite a bit of attention in the blogosphere on the AS-AD model and why he thinks it is not a useful framework. This is Peter: “Introductory textbooks are...
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A framework for understanding Tunisia’s economic crisis
The Arab Spring started in 2010-11 in Tunisia and until now Tunisia has been highlighted as basically the only country, where the Arab Spring has not ended in disaster. Unfortunately over the last...
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