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- “moral hazard”
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: June 3, 2008
The current financial crisis is the result of longstanding political interventionism. In what follows we argue that our monetary system creates incentives for irresponsible behavior (moral hazard) and is therefore an important cause of recurrent crises. Then we discuss two recent articles purporting to downplay the significance of this fact.Moral Hazard and Financial Crises: Two ViewsVirtually...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: April 19, 2008
IntroductionThe Conventional Theory of Moral HazardMoral Hazard on the Free MarketMoral Hazard and the Definition of Property RightsInterventionism and Moral HazardThe Case of Fiat MoneyThis article originally appeared as "The Political Economy of Moral Hazard" in the Czech journal Politická ekonomie (February 2006): 35–47.A central occupation of economists is to analyze the nature, causes, and...
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Category: The Free Market, Institute Publications
Online Publish Date: September 6, 2018
The Free Market 26, no. 4 (April 2008)
A central occupation of economists is to analyze the nature, causes, and effects of incentives—the circumstances that are held to motivate human action. Economists agree on the positive role that “good” incentives play to increase production. They also agree that “perverse” incentives have an opposite impact. One of these perverse incentives is called...
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Category: The Free Market, Journals, Institute Publications
The Free Market 16, no. 12 (December 1998) The phrase of the day is "moral hazard." It's something everyone seems to think is a bad thing, but few are willing to do anything about, certainly not Alan Greenspan. So far, he's on record backing the Mexican bailout, the Asian bailout, the bailout of Long-Term Capital Management, and more IMF funding, despite the financial dangers all these create...
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Online Publish Date: November 2, 2012
The Harvard Business Review on The Problem with FEMA No One Is Talking About: moral hazard. (H/T Peter Klein)
"For a minute, imagine that there was no FEMA and each geographic location was on its own, forced to use private insurance and state-level funds to rebuild after disasters. Such constraints would likely encourage less risk taking before a disaster."
This argument for devolution is lost on...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: April 8, 2003
Many supported the war in Iraq due to the supposed increase in security we will experience at home once Saddam is out of the picture. But who really feels safer in the its aftermath? Why do government's warnings of impending doom seem to be increasing rather than decreasing? Why has the government even put up a new website (www.ready.gov) that makes the most paranoid survivalist literature seem...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: April 17, 2012
European politicians are still trying to save the project of the euro. They design ever-greater bailout packages. Along with the bailouts, an economic government may be forthcoming. Countries may give up parts of their sovereignty. The character of the European Monetary Union (EMU), and even the European Union (EU), may change forever.While it is still unclear where future developments will lead...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: June 3, 2011
The late 1990s saw a strengthening of the International Monetary Fund's core mandate as a global financial parent on the lookout for perceived instabilities to correct in the name of economic development. Several alterations in the scope of its operations following the crises of the previous 20 years had given the Fund a far wider range of policy options, as well as far greater resources, with...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: March 28, 2011
It is a great pleasure for me to present this book by my colleague Philipp Bagus, one of my most brilliant and promising students. The book is extremely timely and shows how the interventionist setup of the European monetary system has led to disaster.The current sovereign-debt crisis is the direct result of credit expansion by the European banking system. In the early 2000s, credit was expanded...
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Category: AERC 2013, Mises Media, Conferences, Austrian Economics Research Conference
Online Publish Date: March 27, 2013
From the session on "Advances in the Theory of Entrepreneurship," presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
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Category: Supporters Summit 2011 in Vienna, Mises Media, Summits and Seminars, Supporters Summits
Online Publish Date: October 14, 2011
Presented in Vienna, Austria, on 19 September 2011. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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Online Publish Date: May 19, 2003
Japan bails out bank
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Online Publish Date: June 24, 2010
You can tell that intellectual property rights are not real property rights just from this very interesting item on BoingBoing, a report on round one of the Google vs. Viacom case. With real property rights, people do not usually go around actively violating their own rights in order to collect from innocent defendants. I’m not even sure I understand how that would work in a case of real property...
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Online Publish Date: August 15, 2007
A little clarification of the confusion surrounding the recent massive central bank intervention in the markets might be in order.Yes, multi-billion cash injections have been taking place: no, this does not mean a return to the 1920s — not yet, anyway — since the bulk of these extra funds have already been withdrawn in the subsequent money operations undertaken as the original loans (strictly,...
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Online Publish Date: April 13, 2016
Most economic concepts never make it out of the academic journals, let alone into the public eye and public opinion. The concept of “moral hazard” is a rare exception: largely due to the financial crisis, this once-technocratic insurance term has become almost a household word.This is all to the good, because moral hazard is a great example of how powerful basic economic reasoning can be. In...
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Category: Audio Mises Daily, Mises Media
Online Publish Date: November 3, 2014
Collective security agreements allow many countries's politicians to shift the cost of national defense to taxpayers outside their own countries. Moral hazard, belligerence, and over-reliance on military solutions often ensue, writes Patrick Barron.This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Robert Hale.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: November 3, 2014
The economic phenomenon known as the "tragedy of the commons" instructs us that commonly-held resources that are insufficiently protected will be plundered
to extinction. The phenomenon was recognized in the early nineteenth century to explain why the commons in England quickly came to be denuded by sheep. All
sheepherders had an equal right to graze sheep on the commons. There often...
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Online Publish Date: March 14, 2017
Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow has passed away at the age of 95. There are few people who can lay claim to a more profound influence on 20th-century economics. In fact, Arrow was the mainstream economist par excellence, contributing to many fields over the course of an almost seventy-year career. He will likely be remembered mainly though as a pioneer of the modern mainstream approach to general...
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Online Publish Date: June 25, 2020
The recent economic downturn has created the environment for a new round of bailouts by the government and the Fed. Last time they did this they told us it would be the last one, but anyone who knows our history knew that was not going to stand. Now we are told again that this is an exceptional situation and we must bail out businesses in trouble so that the economy can restart again as quickly...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: October 23, 2013
(The Economics of Edwin Chadwick: Incentives Matter by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Edward O. Price III, Edward Elgar, 2012, 246 pp.)This book is the first full-length study of the economic writings of Edwin Chadwick, the 19th-century utilitarian social reformer. Although not an economist in the strict sense of the term, Chadwick wrote a voluminous amount on all manner of economic subjects,...