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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: August 2015
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Saturday, August 29, 2015. Not too simple: Just wrong. Simon Wren-Lewis has a nice post. Discussing Paul Romer’s critique. It is hard to get academic macroeconomists trained since the 1980s to address [large scale Keynesian models] , because they have been taught that these models and techniques are fatally flawed because of the Lucas critique and identification problems.". Not too simple. Just wrong! Monday, August 24, 2015.
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: March 2015
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Sunday, March 8, 2015. Yes David: Unemployment is Sometimes Involuntary. My pal David Andolfatto doesnt like it when I say that some unemployment is involuntary. Here is my response:. Saturday, March 7, 2015. Labor Force Participation is Secular: Unemployment is Cyclical! Updated data at the request of Andrew Sentence. On participation and unemployment in the U.S. C) Roger E. A. Farmer March 2015. The idea that unemployment i...
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: Playing Chess with the Devil
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Monday, July 27, 2015. Playing Chess with the Devil. I love this quote (with my amendments for economists) from the NY Times article. The true work of the. Economist is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel. Economic research is to be completely stuck. 8212; you have your first clue. July 28, 2015 at 4:21 AM. July 28, 2015 at 12:07 PM.
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: Somebody at the PBC blinked
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Friday, August 14, 2015. Somebody at the PBC blinked. In a recent post. I made this comment about China’s decision to intervene in its own stock market. Chinese policy makers are now learning that lesson. The Peoples Bank of China (PBC) has allowed the Renminbi to tumble. By more than 3% in the last few days. The ride may not yet be over. What’s happening and why? Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. The Next ...
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: Behavioural Economics is Rational After All
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Friday, July 3, 2015. Behavioural Economics is Rational After All. There are some deep and interesting issues involved in the debate over behavioural economics. Greg Hill posted a comment on my previous blog. Now, you really have to ask yourself whether the kind of rationality involved in [Thaler's idea of a nudge. That led me to explain my views a little further. On Exotic Preferences in Macroeconomics). The dominant vie...
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: January 2015
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Why the ECB Should Take More Risks. Mrs Merkel and Mr. Schäuble are worried. The ECB is planning to buy the sovereign debt. Of its member states and Mr. Schäuble doesnt trust his southern European partners. He thinks that Portuguese, Spanish and Italian debt is risky and he knows. That Greek debt is. Does it matter which assets you buy? Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Financial crises as global sunspots.
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: October 2014
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Monday, October 20, 2014. Will Americans Ever Vote for a Far-Reaching Wealth Tax? Here is a link to my piece on inequality that was published today on the Guardian Economics Blog. What Thomas Piketty has shown us, is that since 1980, it is only the rich and the very rich who have benefited from growth, writes Roger Farmer. Photograph: Peter Hundert/ Peter Hundert/cultura/Corbis. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. It is of course, p...
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: April 2015
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Sunday, April 26, 2015. The Unit Root of the Matter: Is it Demand or Supply? John Cochrane responds to my piece on why there is no evidence that the economy is self-correcting. With an excellent blog post. On unit roots. Johns post raises two issues. The first is descriptive statistics. What is a parsimonious way to describe the time series properties of the unemployment rate? And my perspective on the theory here. And Kevin ...
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: July 2015
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Monday, July 27, 2015. Playing Chess with the Devil. I love this quote (with my amendments for economists) from the NY Times article. The true work of the. Economist is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel. Economic research is to be completely stuck. 8212; you have your first clue. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. 160;and Brad De-Long.
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window: November 2014
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Roger Farmer's Economic Window. A space for quotes, graphs, thoughts and blogs. Friday, November 14, 2014. Repeat After Me: The Quantity of Labor Demanded is Not Always Equal to the Quantity Supplied. Who persuaded macroeconomists to use the Ramsey growth model. As a paradigm for business cycle theory. According to this Real Business Cycle. In every period, was a huge misstep for the science of macroeconomics that will take a long time to correct. And articles ( 2011. Todays post is about measuring.
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