Volume 12, Number 3 (Summer 1991) AEN: Throughout your career as an economist, you have shown interest in social ethics. YEAGER: I don’t see anything peculiar about economists being interested in ethics. The two fields overlap. Both are concerned with how people can function together in society without central direction. Somehow, they pursue
The Free Market 9, no. 3 (March 1991) There has been a veritable revolution in the attitude of the nation’s economists, as well as the public, toward our banking system. Ever since 1933, it was a stem dogma—a virtual article of faith—among economic textbooks, financial writers, and all establishment economists from Keynesians to Milton Friedman,
The Free Market 9, no. 4 (April 1991) Few occurrences have been more dreaded and reviled in the ‘history of economic thought than deflation. Even as perceptive a hardmoney theorist as Ricardo was unduly leery of deflation, and a positive phobia about falling prices has been central to both Keynesian and monetarist thought. Both the inflationary
The Free Market 9, no. 10 (October 1991) Alan Greenspan has received his foreordained reappointment as chairman of the Fed, to the smug satisfaction and contentment of the entire financial Establishment. For them, Greenspan’s still in his heaven, and all’s right with the world. No one seems to wonder at the mysterious process by which each
The Free Market 9, no. 10 (October 1991) AIan Greenspan has received his foreordained reappointment as chairman of the Fed, to the smug satisfaction and contentment of the entire financial Establishment. For them, Greenspan’s still in his heaven, and all’s right with the world. No one seems to wonder at the mysterious process by which each
Volumen 12, número 3 (verano 1991) AEN: A lo largo de tu carrera como economista, has mostrado interés por la ética social. YEAGER: No veo nada raro en que los economistas se interesen por la ética. Los dos campos se solapan. Ambos se ocupan de cómo las personas pueden funcionar juntas en la sociedad sin una dirección central. De alguna manera,
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