Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It , by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, McGrawHill, 2014 Money is an odd book. Its odd character can be brought out through an analogy. Imagine that someone wrote an eloquent book about price and wage controls. The book showed how attempts to control
Dr. Marc Miles, a noted monetary economist, has now joined Mr. John Tamny in criticism of my review of Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames’s book Money . These authors write from a shared viewpoint, and I shall endeavor here to respond to both. In trying to understand my critics, I was puzzled. Forbes and Ames asserted, and I denied, that money
In the view of John Tamny — an editor at Forbes and RealClearMarkets — economics as it is usually studied and taught in universities is unnecessarily complicated. The basic truths of economics are simple and require no difficult mathematics to understand. Readers will be reminded of Hazlitt’s great Economics in One Lesson . Entrepreneurs vs.
The Curse of Cash Kenneth S. Rogoff Princeton University Press, 2016 Kenneth Rogoff would sharply disagree with Peale, a character in the 1915 novel It Pays to Advertise , who said that the most beautiful word in the English language is “cash.” For Rogoff, a distinguished monetary economist (and chess grandmaster) who teaches at Harvard, cash,
Joe Salerno, like Ludwig von Mises, is not only a great economist but a great teacher of economics as well. Since 2005, he has been in charge of the Mises Institute Summer Fellows program. In this program, graduate students spend a summer at the Institute. They engage in regular discussions; and, under Joe’s direction, they prepare a research
The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-Century Free Market Thought by Christopher S. Chivvis Northern Illinois University Press, 2010 xiv + 234 pages The French economist Jacques Rueff was the foremost opponent in the twentieth century of the gold exchange standard, and his defense of the classical gold standard deserves close
The Monetary Conservative: Jacques Rueff and Twentieth-Century Free Market Thought por Christopher S. Chivvis Northern Illinois University Press, 2010 xiv + 234 páginas El economista francés Jacques Rueff fue el principal oponente en el siglo XX del patrón de intercambio de oro, y su defensa del patrón de oro clásico merece un estudio detallado.
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