Maria Edgeworth sneaked economic theory into her best-selling novels. Two centuries later, a new book finally gives her the credit she deserves.
Category: Economics (Theory and Philosophy)
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“The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth”: An Economist, Erased
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U.S. Tariffs Could Price Canadian Firms Out of U.S. and Threaten Thousands of Jobs
The New York Times – Business:The 50 percent tariffs President Trump imposed on Canadian exports to the United States will make it impossible for many Canadian companies to continue to sell to the U.S. market, economists say.
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July Retail Sales Notch Biggest Drop in Over a Year
The New York Times – Business:The data for July showed the biggest drop in more than a year, as American households face the economic strains brought on by persistent inflation
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What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?
The New York Times – Business:A new field of “tokenomics” has emerged to measure the return on all the money companies are pouring into artificial intelligence.
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What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?
The New York Times – Business:A new field of “tokenomics” has emerged to measure the return on all the money companies are pouring into artificial intelligence.
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Edmund Phelps, Who Upended the Way We View Inflation, Dies at 92
The New York Times – Business:He won a Nobel in 2006 for challenging the conventional wisdom among economists that higher inflation was a necessary price to pay for low unemployment.
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Christopher A. Sims, 83, Dies; Won Nobel for Modeling Economic Policy
The New York Times – Business:He and Thomas J. Sargent shared the prize in 2011 for devising statistical tools to help guide economic policymakers.
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Low Rates Sound Great. But a Trump Fed Could Cause a Painful ‘Sugar High.’
Dropping rates more than conditions warrant would stimulate the economy in the short term but could lead to trouble, our columnist says.
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Supreme Court Increasingly Favors the Rich, Economists Say
A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953.
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An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
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An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.