Timothy Taylor

Deflation

Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth

03/04/2015(0)
When I read media discussions about deflation,” three separate meanings are often used more-or-less interchangeably. One meaning is the way that economists use the term, in which “deflation” means ... Read More
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Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?

30/03/2015(0)
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” ... Read More
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China’s Consumption Transition

20/03/2015(0)
A standard pattern of long-term economic development is that a country goes through a period of higher savings and investment, along with correspondingly lower consumption levels. After the growth ... Read More
Economists

Six Reasons Why Economists Should Say Less About “Competition”

03/03/2015(0)
A short essay of mine titled “The Blurry Line Between Competition and Cooperation,” was published a month ago at the Library of Economics and Liberty website. I argued that ... Read More
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How Did Germany Limit Unemployment in the Recession?

08/12/2014(0)
Here’s a puzzle: During the Great Recession, the total contraction in economic output was noticeably larger in Germany than in the United States, but the rise in the unemployment ... Read More
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India Rebounding?

25/11/2014(0)
India has a population of more than 1.2 billion, more than one-sixth of world population. A coupole of decades ago, economic growth started surging in India. For example, the ... Read More
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The Two New Tools of Monetary Policy

12/11/2014(0)
Every basic exposition of how monetary policy is conducted before about 2008 is soon to become obsolete. The three basic monetary policy tools that used to be taught in ... Read More
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Credit Without Banks: Shadow Banking

10/11/2014(0)
One of the vivid lessons of the 2007-2009 recession and financial crisis is that in the modern economy, one can’t just think about the financial sector as made up ... Read More
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Is Better Communication Longer and More Complex?

04/11/2014(0)
Twenty years ago, when the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee wanted to change interest rates, it didn’t make any announcement. It just took action, and market participants observe those ... Read More
economy

Oikonomia, Revisited

31/10/2014(0)
My knowledge of ancient Greek is not significantly different from zero, but every student of economics at some point runs into oikonomia, the root word from which economy and ... Read More
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