John C. Williams will be taking his talents to New York, as the San Francisco Fed President has been announced as the successor to William Dudley. The selection, made by bank representatives within the New York Fed, is the latest example of the Federal Reserve maintaining the status quo.
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century
Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicholas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin
Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2017, xxvii + 272 pp.
In his article released on March 21 2018 - Economics failed us before the global crisis – Martin Wolf the economics editor of The Financial Times expressed some misgivings about macroeconomics.
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality
by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, viii+ 221 pp.
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Public Policy, Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Public Policy on Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Edited by Gregory M. Randolph, Michael T. Tasto, and Robert F. Salvino Jr.
Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2017, 176 pp.
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Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism
by Nima Sanandaji
London: Institute for Economic Affairs, 2015, 132 pp.
The FBI suffered another debacle on Friday when an Orlando jury returned a not guilty verdict for the widow of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people and wounded 53 in his attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June 2016. The biggest terrorism case of the year collapsed largely thanks to FBI misconduct and deceit.
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)
[Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)]
The 1990s and early 2000s saw the rise of a new form of online-only marketplace. Companies like Amazon, eBay, and Craigslist became household words by providing familiar services from the convenience of a computer monitor. In 2004, Backpage.com joined the online advertising market; as of 2011, it trailed only Craigslist in connecting sellers with interested buyers.
