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Economic Sense and Nonsense : Reflections from Europe, 2008-2012 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: De Jasay, Anthony, 1925- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Kliemt, Hartmut, 1949- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • PART 1: TO SPEND OR NOT TO SPEND. Te spend or not to spend
  • Who is afraid of the national debt? Two cheers for fiscal austerity, part 1
  • Two cheers for fiscal austerity, part 2
  • What became of the liquidity trap?
  • The archbishop and the accountants
  • Two ways, but where to?
  • The platinum rule
  • A fiscal curb to tame the state?
  • Can sovereign borrowing be a criminal offense?
  • PART 2: THE THIRD WAY TO STABILITY? Greed, need, risk, and regulation
  • Trudging down the third way
  • Open season on the capitalist free-for-all
  • Collective choice at work
  • Instinctive blunders : job protection and redistribution
  • In fantasyland : the stressless economy
  • They wanted a new order
  • PART 3: THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. The foolish quest for stability
  • Europeans know better : the Atlantic cleavage on financial reform
  • Our cherished optimum currency area : its trials and tribulations
  • Eurozone : it seemed a good idea at the time
  • Stone-age banking, anti-speculation, and rescuing the Euro
  • Butcher, brewer, baker, banker : all must work by the golden rule
  • Euramerican : a safety-first economy
  • Come and get caught in my trap
  • The use and abuse of taxes and tax havens
  • Russia's socialist heritage
  • Oil, gas, and bluster
  • PART 4: THE BEST OF THE WORST. The best of the worst : what price democracy?
  • Is society a great big insurance company?
  • Incomes : equalizing or churning?
  • The fat cats, the underdogs, and social justice
  • Equal poverty, unequal affluence
  • Topping up welfare
  • Is society a great big credit card? part 1
  • Is society a great big credit card? part 2
  • Class war by judo
  • PART 5: RISKS' RETURN. Solvency and liquidity : some financial "crises" are more critical than others
  • A trillion-dollar "catastrophe"?
  • Bank Debt, Sovereign debt, and the dogs that did not bark
  • Is S & P a WMD?
  • Ned Ludd, handloom weaving, and Franco-German moral banking
  • Weeding out the "socially not useful"
  • PART 6: CHEAP TALK AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION. Cheap talk, a weapon of mass destruction : asset values, expectations, and the apocalypse
  • We all prefer growth to austerity
  • Micro, macro, and fantasy economics
  • Negative productivity
  • Finance in parrot talk, part 1
  • Finance in parrot talk, part 2
  • Finance in parrot talk, part 3
  • Economics textbooks : teaching to despise
  • The bootstrap theory of the oil price
  • PART 7: BETTER ECONOMIC THEORY OR NOT? Thank heaven for an inefficient market : a tale of zombies and speculators
  • Corruption, parasitism, and the abuse of agency
  • The demise of GDP is premature
  • When is a change a good thing?
  • The price of everything
  • Enough folly is enough
  • The millstones of egalitarianism, part 1 : distributionism by facts of life
  • The millstones of egalitarianism, part 2 : Ropemanship, or the morality of distributions.