Showing posts with label George Selgin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Selgin. Show all posts
Friday, June 05, 2015

George Selgin: Ten Things Every Economist Should Know about the Gold Standard

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At the Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future (Alt-M) website, George Selgin director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary a...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Quote of the Day: Four Old Fashioned Monetarist Heresies

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1) For any given growth rate of aggregate spending, lower actual rates of price and wage inflation mean higher levels of output and emplo...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Matthew Ridley: Bitcoin as Synthetic Money

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The impressive and articulate Matthew Ridley on his blog explains that Bitcoin is a form of synthetic money:  Bitcoins resemble “commod...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Graphic of the Day: When History Repeats….

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This striking chart demonstrates why there have been patterns of similarities in history … Writes Simon Black at the Sovereign Man ...
Friday, March 23, 2012

The Mythical World of Ben Bernanke

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For Ben Bernanke and their ilk, the world exists in a causation vacuum, as things are just seen as they are, as if they are simply "giv...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Why The Gold Standard was NOT Responsible for the Great Depression

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Rebutting critics of the Gold Standard, monetary economist George Selgin writes , This classical gold standard can have played no part ...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

George Selgin on Nouriel Roubini’s Book and Nouriel Roubini the Insider

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Economist George Selgin takes down Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm’s analysis of the US mortgage crisis of 2007-2008 (source: The Independe...