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News: A tale of two depressions redux

444 days ago - VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H O’Rourke, 6 March 2012The debate over stimulus versus austerity continues unabated. This column shows that, while industrial production and trade ...

News: Why energy has remained stable during the Second Great Contraction

451 days ago - Forum:Blog

In a series of posts leading up to the World Economic Forum’s Energy for Economic Growth report launched on Wednesday 7th March 2012, Kenneth Rogoff talks about the imp...

News: The Crumbling: For-Profit Prisons In the For-Profit Corporate State

451 days ago - Rantings on Markets, Economics and Business Strategy

There is absolutely no doubt that money (control)  rather than truth is the driving factor in the corporate state.  Be that the military-industrial complex or for-pr...

News: Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression -- by Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke

451 days ago - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

We examine the impact of the Great Depression on the share of votes for right-wing anti-system parties in elections in the 1920s and 1930s. We confirm the existence of a link ...

News: Right-wing political extremism in the Great Depression

452 days ago - VoxEU.org: Recent Articles

Alan de Bromhead, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H O’Rourke, 27 February 2012The enduring Global Crisis is giving rise to fears that economic hard times will feed political extrem...

News: Alexander Field: A Great Leap Forward - Productivity Growth During the Great Depression

456 days ago - INET Blog

Alexander Field offers a new take on postwar prosperity in the United States. While public spending during the Second World War is often credited with laying the foundation fo...

Blog: Alexander Field: A Great Leap Forward - Productivity Growth During the Great Depression

Institute for New Economic Thinking 456 days ago

News: Economics in the Age of Deleveraging

482 days ago - Steve Keen's Debtwatch

Click here for this post in PDF: Debtwatch members; CfESI members Click here for the data in this post: Debtwatch members; CfESI members The “Global Financial CrisisR...

Blog: On Opaque Transparency

The Aleph Blog 484 days ago

News: On Opaque Transparency

484 days ago - The Aleph Blog

There are two things that I want to comment on Fed policy this evening: Transparency is overrated, and Bernanke does not understand savings.Transparency is OverratedEver heard...