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... causing an indefinite slump is the de-linking of savings and investment If savings failed to be invested, total spending in the economy would fall to a point below full employment If savings were ... cycle In a modern society, saving and investing are done by two separate groups Saving is a “negative act of refraining from spending,” while investment is a “positive act of starting or maintaining ... and later hailed the stabilizing in uence of the U.S dollar between 1923 and 1928 as a “triumph” of the Federal Reserve We Will Not Have Any More Crashes in Our Time Like Fisher, Keynes was a...

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... analysis in labour economics •Development economics •Financial development and crisis •Econometrics 3b: Empirical macro Master thesis Spring 06/09/2012 / Adam Jacobsson For more details and updated info… ... Jacobsson different degrees • Master Degree in Economics • Master Degree in Econometrics (at least 22,5 credits from the optional courses have to be courses in econometrics and the thesis needs to ... Adam Jacobsson …some more advice • Do the computer labs at the Methodology seminars (some of them will be mandatory)!!! Note also that you need at least 75% attendance in this course! • R, Matlab...

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... attitude toward continuing education as a source of extra income In their view, providing any continuing training services defined just a source of extra income for their professors rather than ... and Saint Petersburg It has 20 faculties (which include 120 departments), more than 120 continuing education programs (including master of business administration, doctor of business administration, ... significant increase in funding (from 1993 through 2008, the funding per student increased by 15 times in comparable prices), HSE’s resource provision (even in terms of purchasing power parity)...

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... in the brain — one for guessing how likely one is to win and lose, and another for 24 evaluating the hedonic pleasure and pain of winning and losing-and another brain region which combines probability ... advances in genetics and brain imaging (and other techniques) have made it possible to observe detailed processes in the brain better than ever before Brain scanning (ongoing at the new Broad Imaging ... answers the following question: suppose the modeler could not determine the individual ingredients that go into the representation, how can he check whether or not the decision-maker behaves in...

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... 29) In these high involvement organizations, employees “feel responsible for and involved in its success” (ibid.,: 3); they “know more, more, contribute more (p 5) They have the power, information, ... found a clear linear relationship between this participation index and three performance indicators, defect density, line yield and cycle time Finally, a study of the oil refining industry found ... 1995: 120) Investment in HPWS can produce a sustainable source of competitive advantage, according to leading HRM professionals, when the different managerial practices are combined into an internally...

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... manufacturing They also directly in uence TFP because poor quality leads to more mending manpower (increasing labor) and wastes more materials (lowering value added), high inventory increases ... remaining 11 firms were then the treatment firms Our initial funding and capacity constraints of the consulting team meant that we could start with four plants as a first round, which started in ... changes in practices for the control firms were largely the results of our measurement—recording quality defect-wise, monitoring machine downtime daily, and monitoring closing stock weekly Implementing...

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... URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate © Cambridge ... Goddess” in the Louvre and the dedication of Nikandre from Delos in the Athens National Museum Kouros from Attica in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Twin kouroi Delphi Museum 10 Outline drawing ... with colossal marble statues held in place by structural iron In the fourth century Athenian marble became dominant, with Parian retaining a corner of the market in Magna Graecia, the panhellenic...

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... discoveries we have already made, and to render our arts more imperfect in order to multiply our labour by diminishing our enjoyments' As to labourers disemployed by the introduction of new machinery, ... building it, in merely a decade, into a flourishing and productive centre for advancing and instructing people in Austrian economics Not the least service to me of the Mises Institute was attracting ... consumer goods The more he has built capital goods - the more tools and machinery - the more can man harness nature to make labour increasingly productive More machinery means an increase in productivity...

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... discoveries we have already made, and to render our arts more imperfect in order to multiply our labour by diminishing our enjoyments' As to labourers disemployed by the introduction of new machinery, ... building it, in merely a decade, into a flourishing and productive centre for advancing and instructing people in Austrian economics Not the least service to me of the Mises Institute was attracting ... consumer goods The more he has built capital goods - the more tools and machinery - the more can man harness nature to make labour increasingly productive More machinery means an increase in productivity...

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... winning policy in one round is posed against a new alternative in the next round and the set of alternatives includes all feasible policies We will certainly not maintain these assumptions in ... here Tabellini and Alesina (1990) introduced this kind of model in the context of analyzing the politics of strategic debt issue in a dynamic setting Many others have since used it We will return ... involvement in those joint projects We want to express our thanks to many colleagues for their comments and feedback These were invaluable in gaining a better understanding of the subject matter, finding...

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... publication of The Wealth of Nations, the Western world began to flourish as never before The spinning jenny, power looms, and the steam engine were the first of many inventions that saved time and money ... thinkers “This Smith is an excellent man!” exclaimed Voltaire We have nothing to compare with him” (in Muller 1993, 15) It was in France that Smith indicated he had lost interest in his tutoring ... to become more conceited, more unprincipled, more dissipated, and more incapable of any serious application either to study or to business .” A father who allowed his son to engage in this “absurd...

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... recession? Will eliminating tariffs between two countries increase trade and jobs between them? Will decontrolling oil prices eliminate the energy crisis? Will technological unemployment in one industry ... nothing, and in time of war acquire nothing which can compensate the expense of maintaining them, even while the war lasts Such people, as they themselves produce nothing, are all maintained ... He was more interested in increasing wealth than dividing it (in sharp contrast to his disciple 38 THE BIG THREE IN ECONOMICS David Ricardo) According to Adam Smith, even a powerful, sinister...

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... from fewer than billion people to over billion However, in looking more deeply at the sharp rise in world population since 1800, we see that the cause is not Malthusian in nature The increase ... critique encouraged Henry George’s land nationalization and single tax movement in the late nineteenth century Ricardo Searches in Vain for Intrinsic Value in Labor Finally, Ricardo was determined to ... was in a sweat, melting, shedding clothes and tears, flashing hot and cold” (Berman 1999, 7) not from staring at Playboy magazine or trading a penny stock for the first time, but from reading Marx!...

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... out of work, becoming increasingly unemployed in an “industrial reserve army” earning a subsistence wage The Crisis of Capitalism Lowering costs, falling profits, monopolistic power, underconsumption, ... “God help us! Disorderliness, stupefying dabbling in all the sciences, stupefying brooding at the gloomy oil lamp; barbarism in a scholar’s 72 THE BIG THREE IN ECONOMICS dressing-gown and unkempt ... almost immediately upon attending the University of Bonn, where he, like many college freshmen, spent more time drinking and carousing than studying He piled up bills, joined a secret revolutionary...

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... leisure time of today? Hardly Marx was incredibly ingenuous in thinking that his brand of utopian socialism could achieve a rapid rise in the workers’ living standards He wrote in the 1840s, in communist ... accomplished in any branch he wishes, thus making it possible for me to one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize ... by publishing “Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein (Einstein’s essay is remarkably Marxist in tone.) Sweezy has been associated with Monthly Review ever since, in addition to collaborating with...

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... in uenced by interest rates, which were determined by time preference Progress is achieved, according to Böhm-Bawerk in Europe and Frank Fetter in America, by capitalists investing their savings ... Historians have disagreed with Weber’s thesis, pointing out that capitalism first flourished in Italian city-states, which were Catholic Catholic Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a flourishing financial ... Association in 1890 (renamed the Royal Economic Society in 1902) Journals were published—the Quarterly Journal of Economics at Harvard in 1887, the Economic Journal at Cambridge in 1891, and the Journal...

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... same thing, only more eloquently: “The more virtuous we are, the more determinedly thrifty, the more obstinately orthodox in our national and personal finance, the more our incomes will have to ... (Elzinga 1992, 878) A TURNING POINT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ECONOMICS 171 Figure 6.1 The Keynesian Cross of National Income Determination: How Saving and Investment Determine Income HOW SAVING ... incorporates all the elements of the new “general” theory In the diagram in Figure 6.1, note that saving (S) increases with national income (NI) As people earn more, they save more However, investment...

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... supply during a recession or depression cannot be effective, like “pushing on a string.” Friedman and Schwartz showed time and time again that monetary policy was indeed effective in both expansions ... borrowing the money does not have any effect on other spending” (Friedman 1982 [1962], 82) In ation and crowding out of private investment are two possible outcomes of Keynesian deficit spending ... as in ation and unemployment started rising together, opposite to what had happened in Britain in the 1950s In a famous statement, British prime minister James Callaghan confessed in 1977, “We...

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