Economic Sense and Nonsense : Reflections from Europe, 2008-2012 /
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Indianapolis :
Liberty Fund,
[2014]
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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.