Must-read: Martin Sandbu: “Free Lunch: On Models and Making Policy”
Must-Read: Superb from the extremely sharp Martin Sandbu! Only three quibbles: There are indeed “three great economists” in the mix here, but their names are Summers, Krugman, and Blanchard… This isn’t...
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Martin Sandbu: Free Lunch: On Models and Making Policy Stan Fischer: Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, and the Zero Lower Bound II Guillaume Calafat and Éric Monnet: Le retour de l’histoire...
View ArticleMust-read: Martin Sandbu: “Ask the big question on central banking”
Must-Read: Martin Sandbu: Ask the big question on central banking: “Mervyn King and Goodfriend… the controversial decision by the Riksbank to raise interest rates… …We will not adjudicate whether the...
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Must-read: Martin Sandbu: “Four Takes on the Fed Fumble”
Must-Read: That the Fed would be facing significant chances of recession and would be moving in the opposite policy direction than its peers over the winter was a serious risk of beginning a tightening...
View ArticleMust-read: Martin Sandbu: “Manufacturing didn’t leave; it left workers behind”
Must-Read: Martin Sandbu: Manufacturing didn’t leave; it left workers behind: “America’s blue-collar aristocracy fell on hard times long ago… …but its ghost remains influential in politics. That much...
View ArticleMust-read: Dani Rodrik: “More on the Political Trilemma of the Global Economy”
Must-Read: I find myself more on Martin Sandbu’s side than that of the very-sharp Dani Rodrik in this debate. This is largely, I think, because Dani remains at too abstract a level. The commitment of...
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