Intermediate Macroeconomics: Teaching Business Cycles
The students' interest in the current economic crisis has served as a source of motivation for them to learn the subject well.
The students' interest in the current economic crisis has served as a source of motivation for them to learn the subject well.
If Washington had done nothing at all after 9/11/01, either in domestic or foreign policy, the world would be much more peaceful and prosperous today.
"Only savings can allow for sustainable economic growth."
In real life, Keynesianism doesn't work; the government bails out the bankers and then depressions last a long time.
The entire Keynesian edifice rests on a central paradox: impeding the central mechanism of the free market will restore prosperity.
Popular rhetoric notwithstanding, government cannot be run like a business.
Securitization is a financial technique that permits the exchange of relatively nonmarketable credit claims for liquidities.
Nevertheless, if we wish to save the capitalist system (or perhaps, to reinstate it), we must reexamine what made this system so successful in the first place, as well as which forces constitute the greatest threats to its existence.
These changes do not affect at the same time and to the same extent the prices of the various commodities and services. They consequently affect the wealth of the various members of society in different ways.