The Problem - II
Calculated Risk adds the the clearest picture of
the housing tailspin.
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The Problem - I
Calculated Risk has the clearest picture of
the problem we face.
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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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Inside the Economist’s Mind
"This blog hosts discussion of issues relevant to the new book, Inside the Economist’s Mind, coedited by Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson and William A. Barnett and published by Blackwell Publishing.”
March 24, 2010, 10:44 pm, 672290
January 19, 2010, 12:44 pm, 634173
An excellent book review of ITEM appeared in the Journal of Economic Literature in the June 2008, vol 46, no 2, issue on pp. 418-421. It starts as follows:
"We economists have long been inured to the fact that anything touched by Paul Samuelson at once ...
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628719
The
Google Books preview of ITEM has improved dramatically since it first appeared in January of 2007. I don't know how they manage to do this, but Google Books has gotten together a lot of relevant information about the book.
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628718
A
book review of ITEM appeared in the journal, Economic History Review, vol 60, no 4, 2007, pp. 869-871. It was written by Roger Middleton himself. He is the Book Review Editor of that journal. Among the statements in the review is: ...
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628705
An interesting post about ITEM appeared yesterday (January 8, 2009) on a
blog in Nepal.
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628706
I have found an interesting course
syllabus online for a principles of macroeconomics course being taught at a community college in Los Angeles. The course uses ITEM as supplementary reading for a required essay. The regular text for the course is Greg Mankiw's principles book.
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628704
The book, Inside the Economist's Mind, now has been translated into Russian. The ISBN of the Russian translation is 978-5-9614-0793-8. The Editor of the translated edition is O. Nizhelskaya. The translators are E. Pestereva and E. Kalugin. The book is within the Moscow ...
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628701
The
German edition of ITEM now is available to be advance ordered from Wiley, but Wiley will not begin delivering the German copies until ...
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628702
The following comment just appeared in the blog,
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy:
The reputation of Paul Samuelson, from the start of his illustrious academic career, and the publication of his Phd dissertation, Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947), is enormous. His popular textbook, Economics, was used ...
January 11, 2010, 6:44 pm, 628703
A foreword was added to the Russian translation of ITEM. That foreword was written by the Rector of the SKOLKOVO School of Management in Moscow. I've had it
translated into English and put online.
