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Posner on Keynes, and the Krugman-Cochrane Debate Continued
Richard Posner, repentant free-market utopian, has writte a nice overview of the main ideas of John Maynard Keynes, which also confirms a number of Krugman's charges against the "Chicago School" of macroeconomics: Until last September, when the banking industry came...

RICHARD POSNER: LIBERALS FORGETTING KEYNES: Krugmans passionate support for the Administrations
RICHARD POSNER: LIBERALS FORGETTING KEYNES: “Krugman’s passionate support for the Administration’s health-care program suggests that he has not absorbed one of the central elements of Keynes’s theory, which is the role of uncertainty in depressing investment spending and, both by depressing investment and by increasing passive savings, in depressing consumption spending as well...

Posner still believes in Chicago School Antitrust (Even if he has a new love for Keynes)
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol See Posner's letter to the editor in today's WSJ. He notes, "My views on antitrust have not changed. I believe that Keynes has much to teach us about the role of government in digging an...

The Prescient Posner
In an essay published at the dawn of the decade, Judge Richard Posner wrote: [I]t is worth pointing out . . . that regulation, deregulation, and reregulation are all favored by economic distress...

Mises Vesus Keynes: And the Winner Is Politics
The current economic crisis has the two schools of economic theory, one associated with Keynes and the other with Von Mises, at odds over the cause and cure. Mises would blame government expansion of credit for the boom and recommend...

Judge Posner Discusses His New Book About Our Current Economic Crisis
The prolific Judge Richard Posner has recently written a book called A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression, and he is now blogging about it in order to provide updates on the ongoing economic crisis which continues apace...

Coffee Tea a Depression Anyone
Judge Richard Posner suggests that an economic depression might not be that bad for the country and that depressions often have a silver lining. His co-blogger, Gary Becker, counters that if there’s a silver lining, then it’s awfully thin...

Risky Business: Keynes, Moral Hazard, and the Economic Crisis
Samuel Gregg writes on Public Discourse: . . . . Though many?if not most?of his ideas were discredited by the stagflation that crippled Western economies in the 1970s, Lord Keynes seems to be back in fashion today...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Bailout Bill HR124

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.