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Keynes’s Ghost

The multiplier argument is founded on two key assumptions that turn out to be false. First is the notion that savings are not spent but rather are withdrawn from the expenditure stream. The multiplier’s second incorrect premise is that government expenditures are “autonomous”; that is, government spending does not depend on current income.

9Jun2009 | James C. W. Ahiakpor | 3 comments | Continued

Happy Birthday, Carl Menger

February 23 is the 161st anniversary of the birth of Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian school of economics. As the economist Joseph Salerno has written, “[I]n its method and core theory, Austrian economics always was and will forever remain Mengerian economics.”
It would be hard to overstate how important Menger was in the development of [...]

1Feb2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued