Category Archives: fiscal policy

The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk:The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

The Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk: The anti-Keynesian era is drawing to a close By Harold R. Chorney, Professor of political economy, Concordia university, Montreal.( I originally submitted this to the New York Times as an op ed … Continue reading →

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Unemployment in Europe averages 12 % as of February 2013

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

The bitter fruits of austerity are on display in the latest unemployment report from Eurostat. Overall there are 26 million people out of work in Europe. unemployment averages 12 %. It is 10.8 % in France,7.7 % in the U.K., … 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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American Recovery Act and stimulus program has a multiplier of more than 2: hence it was a very effective program

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

There have been a lot of false claims made about the ineffectiveness of the American Recovery act and the stimulus that it administered. But if one actually examines the data and calculates the rise in the GDP over the years … 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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Canadian employment falls by 21,900 but headline unemployment rate falls to 7.0 %

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Statistics Canada has released its latest Labour force survey for the month of January. It shows that unemployment has fallen to 7.0 % but there are 21,900 fewer people employed and the fall in the headline rate is due to … Continue reading →

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U.S. jobs report January 2013 unemployment 7.9% 157,000 jobs added:clear need for further fiscal stimulus

Posted on February 1, 2013 by

The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics has released the employment report for January . It shows that unemployment rose slightly to 7.9 %, 157,000 new jobs were added and there were significant upward revisions to employment numbers for last November … Continue reading →

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U.S. 4th quarter GDP shrinks by 0.1 percent: No time to cut spending

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

The news came as a surprise to many but the 4th quarter of 2012 experienced a slowdown in growth that resulted in a very marginal but nonethess a negative growth rate for the GDP. The source of the problem was … 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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US Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.7% from 7.9%:Positive trend continues

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

  The latest U.S. unemployment rate shows a continuation of the positive trend of lower unemployment and a gradually healing eeconomy. The headline rate for November 2012 dropped two tenths of a percentage point to 7.7 % from its October … Continue reading →

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