By: Andrea Terzi
Have you ever considered full employment as a means to properly measure the cost of wars? Tolerating unemployment may indeed lead to pro-war sentiments. Fighting wars requires using resources to produce weapons, feed soldiers, provide transportation. Read the rest of this entry »
By: Andrea Terzi
You may think that the Fed, the central bank of the U.S., has complete control, or at least some control of how many banknotes circulate in the economy. The fact is that the Fed has no power in this.
By: Andrea Terzi
If you think wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were a gigantic waste of money, chronic unemployment in peacetime may be even worse! War raises output and unemployment is not an efficient allocation of our resources. Read the rest of this entry »
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By: Andrea Terzi
There are no ’scarce resources’ causing the financial crisis and the global recession! And yet, no self-correcting force is likely to operate soon. In a “money crisis”, only political authorities (who are the ultimate monopolists of money) can provide effective answers. And to be effective, these should be based on out-of-the-box thinking.
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