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• Germany is willing to accept a higher inflation target but does it matter?

  
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  Last year, we saw a sea change in official German policy regarding the euro crisis and inflation. The German government came out in favour of accepting higher inflation domestically in Germany as a sacrifice for eurozone wage and price adjustments to help alleviate crisis. The question is whether this matters. I ...
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• Understanding the Roberts Courts Health-Care Decision: Monday DeLong Smackdown by Jonathan Adler

  
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  The extremely smart Jonathan Adler delivers the smackdown: For some reason I just saw this now. The Eldred point is interesting, but it’s missing important context. Lessig abandoned the Lopez-style argument against the CTEA. A conservative group had filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit making a ...
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• Intervention symposium – ‘Explosive geographies’

  
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  On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant located in the town of West, Texas exploded spectacularly, killing 14 and levelling a ...
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• New Issue: Review of International Political Economy

  
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  The latest issue of the Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 20, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include: Special Issue: Dreaming with the BRICS? The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Development Cornel Ban & Mark Blyth, The BRICs and the Washington Consensus: An introduction ...
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• The Laffable Curve Curse

  
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  The evidence is that Reagonics sounds nice, but doesn’t work. Tim Donovan wonders why, despite the evidence Republicans are considered to be responsible fiscals, despite the evidence of Reaganomics in practice. A snippet; read the rest. While those who adhere to supply-side principles might point to a brief ...
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• Mary Carson and Jordan Rau: A Patient’s View on the Oregon Medicaid Experiment

  
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  A patient’s view on the Oregon Medicaid experiment : Jordan Rau, KHN: A study of Oregonians who won Medicaid benefits in a 2008 state lottery has sparked an intense debate about the value of expanding health care to the poor — and the value of health benefits in general. Mary Carson is, in a way, at the ...
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• A Case Study on Making Autocracy Work

  
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  A Case Study about Making Autocracy Work Abstract : One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this – the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a ...
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• Ryan Cooper Tries to Guide Clive Crook Back to Reality

  
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  Why oh why cant we have a better press corps? Ryan Cooper: Clive Crook Doesn’t Understand Paul Krugman or Liberals Generally : Crook… made the quite specific claim that Krugman was using the 2009 stimulus for partisan ends…. Krugman and his admirers were at the forefront in casting discussion of ...
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• Peoria and the Heritage Foundation

  
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  Hurrah for Peoria! The news of this achievement is getting spread around : Doctors announced today that two-and-a-half year old Hannah Warren just became the youngest person in history to receive a bioengineered organ transplant, a new windpipe made of a synthetic scaffold and her own stem cells. The nine-hour ...
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• A Grant of Dominion

  
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  …of one group of Americans over another, courtesy of President Barack Obama, congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, NV), and their Obamacare. Dr Ezekial Emanual, ex-health-care adviser to Obama and presently senior fellow at the … Continue reading →
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• A Thought on Wealth Redistribution

  
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  The Heritage Foundation has released their study on a potential cost to existing US taxpayers of legalizing existing illegal aliens under the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform program.  Andrew Stiles, writing for National Review Online, has provided a useful summary … Continue reading →
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• Josh Barro: Boehner Accidentally Explains Why His Deficit Position Is Phony

  
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  Josh Barro: Boehner Accidentally Explains Why His Deficit Position Is Phony : Yesterday, in an interview with Bloomberg Television, House Speaker John Boehner warned that the U.S. government must balance its budget. After all, he said: We have spent more than what we have brought into this government ...
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• Department of "Huh!?": George Borjas Says Richard Zeckhauser Chaired Jason Richwines Thesis Committee?

  
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  Jennifer Rubin: What the anti-immigrant movement really believes : I received the following e-mail attack from Borjas, who, keep in mind, is a Harvard professor: Someone copied me on an email that contained your column trashing Jason Richwine’s dissertation work, and along the way you decided to trash ...
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• Has Clive Crook Recovered His Orientation? Perhaps...

  
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  My comment on: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-09/krugman-delong-and-radical-centrism.html Now that is infinitely better! But do note you are no longer claiming that Paul Krugman trying to radicalize the Obama administrations position on "the stimulus" in the winter of 2008-2009. You are, instead, making a ...
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• Robert Skidelsky vs. Niall Ferguson: John Maynard Keynes Is Not Ke$ha (Also, the U.S. Is Not Greece, and 2013 Is Not 1923)

  
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  Ke$ha: And Robert Skidelsky explains what John Maynard "Well Keep Dancing Till We Die" Keynes really meant by " In the long run we are all dead": True, Keynes cared little about the long run. But that wasn’t because he was gay : The passage… discusses… the quantity theory of money: the notion that a ...
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• A Thought on Taxes

  
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  As the idea of reforming our mendaciously Byzantine tax code starts to come up again—whether as a reform in its own right or as a bargaining chip in the coming debt ceiling debate (which debate properly focuses on cutting spending … Continue reading →
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• Niall Ferguson Is Wrong to Say That He Is Doubly Stupid: Why Did Keynes Write "In the Long Run We Are All Dead"? Weblogging

  
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  Niall Ferguson: An Open Letter to the Harvard Community : Last week I said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes.  Asked to comment on Keynes’ famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” I suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he ...
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• Eric Rauchway: Adam Smithian "Sympathy" and the Sources of Keynes’s Critique of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles: Niall Ferguson Carl-Melchior-Was-Really-Hot Smackdown Watch

  
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  Eric Rauchway : Apropos nothing at all I thought I might address the suggestion, sometimes raised, that John Maynard Keynes’s “love” for Carl Melchior, German representative at Versailles, might substantively have influenced Keynes’s position on what reparations the Germans ought to pay. Keynes made early ...
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• My John Maynard Keynes Lecture

  
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  Little more than quotes from Skidelskys three-volume Keynes biography strung together, with a little commentary and occasional quibbling… John Maynard Keynes J. Bradford DeLong Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley Econ 115 Lecture September 29, 2009 ...
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• Obama’s Regulation Costs

  
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  Heritage Foundation estimates that annual regulatory costs increased during Obama’s first four years by nearly $70 billion—with more regulations in store for term two. And that’s just the 130, or so, so-called major regs.  President Barack Obama’s EPA accounted for … Continue reading →
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