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Monetarism enters bankruptcy
The invasive dominance of monetarism in macroeconomics has been total ever since central bankers, led by Alan Greenspan, who from 1987 to 2006 was chairman of the Board of Governors of US Federal Reserve - the head of the global central banking snake by virtue of dollar hegemony - embraced the counterfactual conclusion of Milton Friedman that monetarist measures by the central bank can ...
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:50:48 GMT - (Asia Times)

Permanence: How permanent will the loss of output be? What will be the effect on jobs?
The following economists? answers appear in no particular order. There will be a loss of output that is never recovered. There will be a considerable effect on jobs but the extent of the effect will depend on supply side and not demand-side policies.
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:23:54 GMT - (Financial Times)

Beware of grammarians who rule by whim
I can have no opinion and a store can have no bananas, even if prescriptivists object.
Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:28:16 GMT - (International Herald Tribune)

Anti-trust/Competition
The UK antitrust authority, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), published on 18 December 2008 a restatement of its position on the "failing firm" defence in merger reviews. In current economic conditions, this is timely confirmation of the relevant principles and practice.
Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:30:12 GMT - (Mondaq)

Are you a legal Professional?
In October, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in Rivera v. Illinois , to address the following question: If a trial judge erroneously denies a criminal defendant a peremptory challenge, believing that the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause requires that denial, must the defendant's resulting conviction be automatically reversed or, alternatively, is this mistake subject to ...
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:13:00 GMT - (FindLaw)

Rescue Plan Would Force U.S. Auto Companies to Restructure
President Bush has unveiled a $17 billion automaker rescue plan that will force the companies to restructure in order to remain competitive. A White House economist and a congressman debate the package.
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:08:01 GMT - (The Online NewsHour)

Jeremy is the master
I lost a bet with Jeremy Rosner and promised to admit it publicly.
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:47:30 GMT - (Salon.com)

Focus: A man and his mission
For the past three years, outgoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) country representative Reza Baqir has been in the headlines, talking about his tax reform agenda that calls for the rationalization of the Philippines' fiscal incentives to investors and indexing excise taxes to inflation.
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:31:51 GMT - (BusinessWorld Online)

A "What if" take on JFK, Vietnam
"Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived" is an absorbing and entertaining documentary that reviews John F. Kennedy's past behavior and asserts the counterfactual argument that he would not have chosen to go to war in Vietnam.
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:11:18 GMT - (Seattle Times)

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Metaphysics of Free Will
This coming term, I'm teaching a special topics course entitled "The Metaphysics of Free Will." A few years ago, I taught a similar course entitled "Free Will and Character Formation," the prep-work for which lead to this article. I really enjoyed that course, and think I will this one as well
Posted on 2009-01-07 16:31:02 GMT

blog: the TimpestOn being glad of the world
1. In late November last year I engaged with one of the moral paradoxes in Saul Smilansky's book 10 Moral Paradoxes. I argued that what Saul presented as being a moral paradox isn't one. This led to an exchange of emails between us, an exchange which Saul asked me to post
Posted on 2009-01-07 15:55:52 GMT

blog: NormInfrastructure
Here's Alistair Walling: There is a lot of talk afoot of the need to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, ... Alps. It takes an inquisitiveness and understanding of counterfactual reasoning to realise
Posted on 2009-01-07 15:53:13 GMT

blog: The Filter^'Israel rules' more than 'Israel lobby' the problem
Saying '�Hamas is not the problem; it is a symptom,'� Gary Kamiya has an excellent takedown of all the different ways Israel's attempt to crush Hamas is doomed to failure, or worse.On the lines of the Stephen Walt piece I blogged about earlier, Kamiya starts with some counterfactual history to illustrate Israel's wrongness, except he postulates
Posted on 2009-01-06 14:11:00 GMT

blog: SocraticGadflyMonetarism enters bankruptcy
By Henry C K Liu Jan 6, 2009 The invasive dominance of monetarism in macroeconomics has been total ever since central bankers, ... the counterfactual conclusion of Milton Friedman that monetarist measures by the central bank ... counterfactual conclusion. Friedman's '�Only money matters'� turned out to be a very dangerous slogan. Both
Posted on 2009-01-06 13:43:14 GMT

blog: RevolutionRadio.org Possible worlds
Tropecei, por acaso, na teoria dos mundos possíveis. É mentirosa, falsa, absurda, pura ilusão ... in this universe is necessary in order to explain what makes certain counterfactual statements true
Posted on 2009-01-06 07:50:00 GMT

blog: MacFernCounterfactual history, Six-Day War and Gaza today
Stephen Walt offers the bipartisan foreign policy establishment '� or the segment of it that will listen '� some provocative food for thought about issues in the Gaza Strip.I'm waiting for the neocon hack job to come out of the mouth of the American Enterprise Institute, Bill Kristol or the New Republic in response
Posted on 2009-01-06 01:54:00 GMT

blog: SocraticGadflyMonetarism enters bankruptcy
By Henry C K Liu The invasive dominance of monetarism in macroeconomics has been total ever ... banking snake by virtue of dollar hegemony - embraced the counterfactual
Posted on 2009-01-06 00:18:00 GMT

blog: Dictynna's Netéconomie-europe_05/01/2009
Source : NEP (New Economics Papers) | RePEc Sectoral Productivity, Density and Agglomeration in the Wider EuropeDate:2008-09By:Robert Stehrer (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw) Neil Foster (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw)URL:http://d.repec.org/n?
Posted on 2009-01-05 19:16:15 GMT

blog: R e s s o u r c e s E S P OTheistic Critiques of Atheism, Part 3
Yesterday we looked at Dr. William Lane Craig's rather remarkable suggestion that we ought not to expect to have any more evidence of God's existence than we do because we ought to assume that God would only provide valid evidence to those who, in His foreknowledge, are certain to respond to this evidence by becoming Christians. Dr
Posted on 2009-01-05 10:18:34 GMT

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