In the paper "Conversation or Monologue: On Advising Heterodox Economists," we are taken to task by Matías Vernengo on a number of issues made in Colander, Holt, and Rosser (2004b; 2007-8). In this paper, we respond to two central arguments made by Vernengo, and stand by our earlier arguments that...

Daily price movements of seventeen commodities are tested for the possible presence of nonlinear speculative bubbles during 1991-2012. A VAR model for logarithmic first differences of each is estimated with one-year Treasury bill rates, U.S. dollar value, a world stock market index, and an...

Daily price movements of seventeen commodities are tested for the possible presence of nonlinear speculative bubbles during 1991-2012. A VAR model for logarithmic first differences of each is estimated with one-year Treasury bill rates, U.S. dollar value, a world stock market index, and an...

We attempt to clarify divisions made by us in previous work (Colander et al., 2004a; 2004b) between "orthodox, mainstream, and heterodox" in economics, following useful remarks in Dequech (2007-8), whom we thank. We also provide specific advice for heterodox economistsânamely, worry less about...

Modern governments with a floating currency face no inherent financial constraints. Unfortunately, most modern macro-theorists continue to write as if these nations were financially constrained by (1) the magnitude of current tax "revenue" and (2) the private sector's willingness to "finance"...

This paper addresses three monetary policy issuesâpolicy independence, choice of targets, and rules versus discretion. According to the new monetary consensus, the central bank needs policy independence to build credibility, the operating target is the overnight interbank lending rate, and the...