The other day, I made a blog post about the Greek debt crisis. After reading Professor Smitka’s comment, I wondered how effective/ineffective the IMF’s austerity…
Category: fiscal policy
…sequestrian offers a “natural” experiment to test views of government… Microeconomists will thank Congress for providing a natural experiment to test competing views of government.…
…our problem is strong growth!?… Mitt Romney’s choice of a vice presidential is puzzling. As I see it, Paul Ryan’s primary strength is that he…
The Washington Post reported [here, Dec 14th] on the budgetary crunch at Berkeley, amidst a claimed more general trend towards less state support for higher…
We know that Greece is in trouble. But what of California? It too is a sovereign entity within a monetary union. Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the…
Mike Smitka …Inaction is the Best Medicine?… The question: can we use an analogy from medicine, that we should treat the disease rather than the…