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    Why Money? A Light-Hearted Response to Paul Davidson

    January 20, 2011

    Say what? I know, you all think I am nuts. Not content with bashing away endlessly at my fixation with Coase and his simple question, now I am asking an even more ridiculous one. Why money? Actually it’s not my question, but was posed by that sly Paul Davidson in a comment on one of […]

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    Jobs and Job Creation

    January 20, 2011

    Please do not get excited over this morning’s report of a 40,000 drop in new claims for unemployment assistance. It is largely fiction. The weekly total was 404,000, which is much better than where we were a few months ago, but is nowhere near where it needs to be for us to argue strong job […]

    Economics / free market theory, Ronald Coase, theory of the firm /

    Addendum on Coase [Again- Apologies in Advance!]

    January 19, 2011

    A friend here in New York wrote to me to say he “didn’t get” the import of my comment yesterday about Coase. This is my fault. Let me take a quick – I promise – stab at clarification because his befuddlement strikes right at the heart of why regular people find economics so baffling. Recall […]

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