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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

HAYEK'S THOUGHT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

RETHINKING ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS

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BrinkLindsey of the Cato Institute wrote a piece on the origins and causes of Argentina's economic crisis. The article can be read here ...

INFLATIONARY PRESSURES IN GULF COUNTRIES

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From FT ( link ): "Inflation has replaced unemployment as the most pressing short-term problem facing the oil-rich Gulf economies, whic...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

THE REAL FACE OF PUTINOMICS

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Aleh Tsvynski and Sergei Guriev wrote a brief article on Russia's state of the economy and political stability. Here's a slice of t...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC NATIONALISM

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Financial Times reports that Russia's outgoing president Mr. Putin has signed an act which defined 42 sectors of the economy in which s...

WILL CANADA, POLAND AND FINLAND JOIN THE FLAT TAX CLUB?

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The proposition to move towards flat-rated income tax has been suggested in Canada ( link ), Finland ( link ) and Poland ( link ).
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

GERMANY'S ECONOMIC GROWTH EXPECTATIONS REDUCED

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From FT ( link ): "Germany’s economic growth will “lose momentum” this year because of high oil and food prices, the strong euro and th...
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AVERAGE WORKING WEEK IN OECD COUNTRIES

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RISING FOOD PRICES

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Professor Gary Becker offers an opinion on why export restrictions on food and other prevailing measures of intervention and policy failures...

SELECTED READINGS IN ECONOMICS

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Here's my current reading list of economics books: Paul Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, International Economics , Theory and Policy, Addison-...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

ICELAND'S INTEREST RATE GOES UP TO 15,5 PERCENT

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From today's edition of Financial Times ( link ): "Iceland has the highest interest rates in Europe after the central bank raised r...
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IS HOOVERNOMICS BACK ON TRACK?

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Wall Street Journal recently reviewed ( link ) the part of the economic agenda proposed by Democratic presidential candidates compared to He...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

ALLAN H. MELTZER ON REGULATION

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Allan H. Meltzer wrote an article ( link ) on regulation published in Wall Street Journal: "The first principle of regulation is: Lawye...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

FISCAL FEDERALISM AND TAX COMPETITION: THE CASE OF SWITZERLAND

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Financial Times recently published an article ( link ) describing how fiscal federalism works in Switzerland. Contrary to conventional belie...

DEMOCRATS AND THE ECONOMY

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Stephen J. Rose and Anne Kim, writing for Wall Street Journal, wrote an article ( link ) about the democratic attitude towards the economy; ...

ICELAND'S INFLATION

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From WSJ's Real Time Economics ( link ): " Iceland’s central bank Tuesday unexpectedly raised its key interest rate by 125 basis p...
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Friday, March 21, 2008

INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNY MUNKHAMMAR

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In your newest book called "Guide to Reform" you emphasized the significant importance of economic and structural reforms to pursu...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

ECONOMICS AND THE RULE OF LAW

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Last week, The Economist posted an article ( link ) describing the relationship between economics and the rule of law. Until recently, the r...
Monday, March 17, 2008

THE MIRAGE OF SWEDEN'S WELFARE STATE

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Today's edition of the Wall Street Journal includes an opinion ( link ) where the author describes how the costs of social engineering a...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

COMPETITIVE TEXAS vs. LAGGING OHIO

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Hillary R. Clinton and Barack Obama are racing around the states to win the primaries ( here and here ) . Recently, they've been fetchi...
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