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Why Do Markets Collapse?

Robert Skidelsky— Macroeconomics is about money and government, and their relationship. The unsettled questions in macroeconomic policy stem from disputes about the part money plays in economic life, and the part government should play. For 250 years, the dominant view of the economic profession has been that money is of

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Can behavioral economics help balance the budget?

With Barack Obama’s recent pledge to get serious about balancing the budget, the New York Times‘ David Leonhardt sought out the group of people that are, he writes, “ideally suited to help Mr. Obama with this task”: behavioral economists. Citing the work of University of Chicago economist and YUP author

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