Category Archives: classical economics

Robert Mundell, Columbia University economist criticizes overvalued euro which promotes unemployment and urges QE

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

Robert Mundell, a Nobel prize winning Canadian economist at Columbia University and a specialist on trade,exchange rates and currencies has wisely critiqued the European central bank for allowing an overvalued exchange rate on the euro which has harmed growth in … Continue reading →

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Italian electorate rejects austerity by overwhelming margin

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

The Italian electorate has overwhelmingly rejected the austerity which its technocratic government led by Mario Monti with the backing of Germany had imposed on the country. Mr. Monti’s party according to La Repubblicca received a mere 10.5 % of the … Continue reading →

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Europe still mired in austerity, slow growth and possible recession and excessive unemployment

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

The situation in Europe continues to be worrisome and exasperating. The stubborn ideologically driven opposition to stimulating the economy through major infrastructure and employment creating investments and a supportive low interest monetary policy including where appropriate quantitative easing is long … Continue reading →

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German American economist N.Johannsen and impair savings:important clue to current slow recovery

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

The German American amateur economist Nicholas Johannsen (1844-1928) published a work in 1908 entitled A Neglected Point in Connection with Crises in which he developed the notion of ”impair savings” He used this notion to point out that crises originated … Continue reading →

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Keynes’s Fundamental Equations From The Treatise on Money

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

The symbols used in A Treatise on Money are somewhat different from the General Theory  and for those who are familiar with GT but not the Treatise are a little confusing at first. See both Keynes’s A Treatise on Money vol.1 ch.10 … Continue reading →

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”Entitlement”programs is a loaded term:Social Democratic Minimum is a Better More Accurate One

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

During the fiscal cliff negotiations in the U.S. one hears the term ”entitlement” programs frequently. This is of course an ideologically loaded term that by its very nature seeks to suggest that basic social democratic minimum programs like health care, … Continue reading →

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Hoarding, speculation and the problem of unemployment

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

The classical school of economics always argued that wages would adjust to clear gluts of unemployed workers over a reasonably short period of time and that cash would not be hoarded but used to purchase bonds or otherwise spent on … Continue reading →

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U.S. Unemployment drops to 7.8%. excellent news, Obama on right track;Canadian unemployment rises.

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics has released the latest unemployment numbers for September and they are good ones. They show a long awaited (and as I have been arguing) fall in the unemployment rate to below 8 % , … Continue reading →

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Poli 610:Macro-economic theory and policy after Keynes and the crash of 2008

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

Pol. 610  Macro-economic policy-making after Keynes Concordia University fall, 2012 Prof. H. Chorney tel. 848 2424 ext.2106  e mail Chorney@alcor.concordia.ca Office hours tba This course is an intensive examination of macro-economic policy-making and macro-economic theory in the light of recent … Continue reading →

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UK growth negative for second quarter 2012:more evidence austerity does not work

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

The U.K. office of national statistics has released its latest numbers on the declining GDP in Britain. As I expected they continue to be starkly negative. The UK economy continues to shrink so that Britain has now experienced a clear … Continue reading →

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