This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short run and flexible in the long run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the...

Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...

Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...

Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...

This paper disproves Hick's compensation principle. It shows that compensation is wilful and wrong. Compensation, like intervention, is non-economics. Instead, this paper suggests using one of the products as input to produce another as output, for profit

J. Viner, as well as all other economists who have written on Keynes's analysis of the rate of interest in the General Theory, erred in not taking into account Keynes's detailed, painstaking analysis on pp.180-182 of the General Theory, where Keynes clearly and carefully derived and identified...