Economics Roundtable
The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of the problem we face.
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The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of the housing tailspin.
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Special Topic 8/4/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature a special listing for reaction to the payroll employment figures from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +42,000
BLS: -131,000/+71,000
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Special Topics 6/28/10
This week, the Roundtable will feature special listings for reaction to Wednesday's
CBO budget projections and the
payroll employment figures
from ADP on Wednesday and the BLS on Friday.
ADP: +13,000
BLS: -125,000/+83,000
CBO: Take your pick.
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Current Economic Conditions 6/5/10
James Hamilton summarizes the situation.
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Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy
l"The Calculus of Selfishness" (Princeton University Press, 2010)
“How does cooperation emerge among selfish individuals? When do people share resources, punish those they consider unfair, and engage in joint enterprises? These questions fascinate philosophers, biologists, ...
I refer to the revised text for my paperback edition of Adam Smith: a moral philosopher and his political economy (Palgrave).
Biggest change is to the invisible hand chapter 12, which brings up to date my critique of the modern ...
"Self-interest motive has won the war"
“There has been a running debate over the years about the relationship between Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments and his Wealth of ...
“Invisible Hand Goes Missing”
“For most of the last 3 decades, many influential economists embraced a theory that justified wholesale theft by the Finance industry because the magical powers of Adam Smith's ...
This is a welcome move, though one of many necessary ...
What you may ask is so remarkable about that?
This edition is published by Penguin Classics ($17 US and £10.99 UK) well within most student ...
‘The Invisible hand”
Adam Smith's complex and influential writings on philosophy, politics, and economics contain, among other concepts, his metaphor of an "invisible hand," the ...
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“When it rains you should read up on finances”
“I’m not quite delusional enough to believe I would sit down and read Adam Smith, though I suspect it would be very impressive at dinner parties to reel off ...
I thought readers may like to know just how many mentions of the invisible hand there are in a week (I would put it in the high 90s, often more).
Now these ...
The original article is from Huffington Post HERE
“The Invisible Hand is Dead. Long Live (Smart) Regulation”
“The invisible hand metaphor originates with Adam Smith ...