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This paper provides an overview and discussion of the legal and economic philosophy of Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), a French political economist. A bibliography with links to other Bastiat studies is also included
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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) was an economist and journalist. A member of the French Liberal School, he is best known for his free trade ideas and his philosophy of law. Mark Blaug ranks him as one of the 100 greatest economists before Keynes. Schumpeter called him a brilliant economic...
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Post-1936 economic history has given the multiplier theory mixed reviews …
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The Obama stimulus package has been less than a total success if one is to compare what was predicted to what has been delivered to date. The crux of the problem is that the economic planners have ignored or failed to take into account the secondary effects that increased government spending has...
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Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a journalist and economic theorist within the French liberal school. He is best known for his writings on free trade and protectionism. Although he has written several classic short treatises, his work has been ignored by most modern economists. This paper will...
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unemployment", compared to the keynesian project of a general theory which would marginalize the classical cases. This neo … [mally adopted a theory of structural unemployment with classical properties. …
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Keynes contents in General Theory that the monetary market logic of the aggregate real wage in the monetary production … money wage rate through the bargains of the firms and the workers as a market-theoretical stability condition of the … economic system. Accordingly, (iii) the money wage claims of labour (in conformity with changes of the average labour …
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This paper will discuss how the Financial Crisis of 2008 has thrown neoliberalism into a deep legitimation crisis. Over the past four decades the neoliberal ethic of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher has permeated American life both public and private. The principles of the laissez faire...
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This paper aims at analysing the role of uncertainty in Keynes theory of involuntary unemployment. This concept has no … role in the model of Keynes resulting from the neoclassic synthesis: a result of unvoluntary unemployment equilibrium is … obtained as to the violation of Walras law. Section 1 shows the gap between Keynes analysis of unemployment and Glustoff …
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) demonstrating the existence of involuntary unemployment; 2) demonstrating that wage rigidity can be exonerated as its cause; 3 …This paper addresses the issue of why Keynesian economists have had such a hard time in giving the concept of … involuntary unemployment a place in economic theory. Is the gradual demise of this concept a manifestation of some inner defect in …
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