Autor: Benjamin M. Friedman

What tools are available for setting and analyzing monetary policy? World-renowned contributors examine recent evidence on subjects as varied as price-setting, inflation persistence, the private sect …

The two papers that make up the core of this book address what is perhaps the most fundamental question in the current debate over Social Security: whether to shift, in part or even entirely, from to …

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What are the goals of monetary policy and how are they transmitted?Top scholars summarize recent evidence on the roles of money in the economy, the effects of information, and the growing importance …

How have monetary policies matured during the last decade?The recent downturn in economies worldwide have put monetary policies in a new spotlight. In addition to their investigations of new tools, m …

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Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes’s vision of growth, inequality, work, leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in th …

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Two top economists outline distinctive approaches to post-crisis financial reform.Over the last few years, the financial sector has experienced its worst crisis since the 1930s. The collapse of major …

Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.It is no surprise that many fearful American workers s …

Economists consider the legacy of Karl Brunner’s monetarism and its influence on current debates over monetary policy.Monetarism emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a school of economic thought that qu …

How religious thinking was-and remains-a central influence shaping economics.The conventional view of economics is that the field was a product of the Enlightenment and, therefore, bore no relation t …

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This volume, consisting of papers presented at a conference held at Williamsburg, Va., 2-3 April 1981, is a progress report on the National Bureau of Economic Research project, The Changing Roles of …

The research reported in this volume represents the second stage of a wide-ranging National Bureau of Economic Research effort to investigate "The Changing Role of Debt and Equity in Financing U …

Six leading economists examine the financing of corporate capital formation in the U.S. economy. In clear and nontechnical terms, their papers provide valuable information for economists and nonspeci …