Evidently, however, the potential for the strictly natural natural experimental approach, which relies exclusively on natural events as instruments, is constrained by the small number of random events provided by nature and by the fact that most outcomes of interest are the result of many factors associated with preferences, technologies, and markets. And the prospect […]
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Att låna till försvaret är enligt finanspolitiska rådet inte att rekommendera. I Finanspolitiska rådets årliga rapport som presenterades häromdagen föreslås istället att de kraftfulla aviserade försvarssatsningarna på uppemot 300 miljarder kronor finansieras via höjda skatter eller omprioriteringar i statsbudgeten. Hade man föreslagit att skattefinansieringen skulle ske genom kraftigt höjd progression i inkomstskatterna, kapitalskatter eller särskilda […]
. While the United States often symbolises extreme wealth concentration, the perception of Sweden as an egalitarian utopia requires re-examination. In recent decades, economic inequality in Sweden has grown at a rate that, in some respects, rivals that of the US. Although Sweden maintains a robust social safety net, the underlying income inequality has surged. […]
När Finanspolitiska rådet med den väne Lars Heikensten i spetsen riktade kritik mot att regeringen inte följt sitt eget ekonomiska regelverk, kunde inte Mikael Damberg hålla sig. Han gick rätt i fällan, bekräftandes bilden att pengarna är slut. Men fakta är att Sverige har en mycket låg statsskuld. Vi har stora investeringsbehov. Och nationen Sverige […]
Perhaps the foremost financial crisis theorist of our time, Hyman Minsky, had as his central idea that crises are endogenous (system-internal) phenomena where stability creates instability and reduces safety margins for financial transactions with excessively high leverage effects. During the upswing phase of financial bubbles, safety margins shrink, and even the smallest setback can lead […]
Neoclassical economics is known for its illicit use of garbled language which hides and convolutes instead of explains … An interesting example is the chapter by Edward Prescott, titled ‘RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory’. Let’s first give the floor to him, mind that ‘leisure’ means ‘measured unemployment’: “What turned out to […]
~by Sean Paul Kelley Couple of random notes this Friday morning, mostly economics related, some silver news and my personal reaction to portions of the discusssion in Ian’s “Is Virtue An Advantage Or Disadvantage For Societies?” post. First, econonomics. It looks more and more like we are heading into a 2008-style credit crisis/crunch. Don’t believe […]
Things look very different from 198o onward. During this era, we see faster automation but only a few technologies counterbalancing the antilabor bias of automation. Wage growth also slowed down as the labor movement became increasingly impaired. In fact, lack of resistance from the labor movement was likely an important cause of the greater emphasis […]
Consider the example given by Martin Feldstein (1999) of a group of well-heeled economists gathered at a conference or subscribers to an economic journal. If each of us—the economists—were given $1,000, inequality (in the United States) would go up; each of us would be better off and no one would be worse off. So what […]