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Seeking Alpha
April 25, 2018
This theory runs counter to mainstream economic theory. This theory states that economic participants are on the whole rational and that they make decisions that in the aggregate amount to good choices. It also holds that free markets are effective at balancing supply and demand, at pricing assets correctlyÃâà...
Richmond.com
April 25, 2018
Even the most casual NFL fan, or non-fan, recognizes the name “Jerry Rice.” He was perhaps the greatest receiver in NFL history. Only the most diehard Washington Redskins fans will remember the names Devin Thomas, Fred Davis and Malcolm Kelly. They, too, caught passes, although not nearly asÃâà...
New Vision
April 17, 2018
... Development Centre (NCDC) Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education teaching syllabus for economics specifies two papers in which leaners have to be examined and assessed: Economics P220/1 Paper One, which seeks to test the students' understanding of basic economic theories and concepts.
Interest.co.nz
April 17, 2018
In this paper, we examine the international evidence and the economic theory that suggests more accurate DCs are unlikely to result in higher house prices, but will be absorbed by land owners who currently receive windfall gains from general ratepayer-funded infrastructure. At their current levels, DCs doÃâà...
Southwest Farm Press
April 16, 2018
With the exception of two periods of high net cash farm income in 2003-05 and 2011-14, national level farm real estate values in 2000-16 were higher than economic theory would predict. Interest rates declined over this period and played a major role in supporting farmland values by keeping borrowingÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 16, 2018
Ben May of Oxford Economics said: “Economic theory would suggest that if you raise your interest rates that it is likely to lead to a stronger currency. But to a certain degree you can't explain currency movements with one side of an argument. More often than not it's going to be a combination of events.”.
FE Week
April 16, 2018
The answer is a set of interrelated economic theories. Their starting point is the “principal/agent dilemma”. This suggests that where a government (the principal) funds institutions (the agent) to deliver public policy, there is a danger that the latter will instead follow their own self-interest, ignore what theÃâà...
The Interpreter
April 16, 2018
Economic theory is always in favour of more, cheaper trade to bolster global growth. Most ACP countries are major importers of manufactured goods from both China and the US, so if the costs of those goods rise without a corresponding boost in export values their economies will certainly lose out.
AZFamily
April 16, 2018
"It's not what traditional economic theory suggests is appropriate fiscal policy at this mature stage of the business cycle," Gapen said. Consider those interest payments on US debt are on track to quadruple to $1.05 trillion by 2028. At that point, the deficit could hit $2 trillion if current policies stay intact.
Prospect
April 14, 2018
The real problems go to the theoretical core of modern economic theory—the so-called “neoclassical” paradigm. This has underpinned the academic discipline for well over a century, and has more recently come to warp public policy too. Its tentacles reach far and wide—from our universities, which areÃâà...
The Vanguard
April 10, 2018
The pleasant woman or man who pours your morning double-double got a raise last week, although not quite enough to add up to a cup for themselves even after an eight-hour shift. Nova Scotia's minimum wage crept up 15 cents-an-hour, to $11 because Premier Stephen McNeil believes anything more might fuel inflation.
TheChronicleHerald.ca
April 9, 2018
The pleasant woman or man who pours your morning double-double got a raise last week, although not quite enough to add up to a cup for themselves even after an eight-hour shift. Nova Scotia's minimum wage crept up 15 cents-an-hour, to $11 because Premier Stephen McNeil believes anything moreÃâà...
Markets Insider
April 3, 2018
Many people struggle with losing weight. In "The Economists' Diet," two formerly obese economists say it all comes down to understanding fundamental economic theories. Their tips include weighing yourself every day and minimizing variety in your diet.
Newsline
April 3, 2018
The insights provided by behavioural economics are so radically in conflict with economic theory, that economists have not been able to assimilate .... of western economics would create much-needed scepticism about the applicability of western economic theories to our radically different historical andÃâà...
The Depaulia
April 3, 2018
PPP is an economic theory that is utilized to compare economic productivity and standards of living between countries and across time by way of comparing different countries' currencies through a “basket of goods” approach. Equally gruesome, there are 800 million people, accounting for about 12 percentÃâà...
CCN
April 3, 2018
Ethereum's most well-known founder and, perhaps, most benevolent influence-wielder is starting April off the way he normally does: cracking jokes. But after the joke itself played out on Github via Buterin's Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) #960 — the joke being, according to Buterin, to laugh at howÃâà...
Mosaic
April 2, 2018
This insistence on intellectual humility shares much, according to the economist Russ Roberts, with Judaism's. Furthermore, explains Roberts, one finds in the Talmud statements that very much reflect modern economic theories of specialization, and the development of halakhah itself in some ways mirrorsÃâà...
INTHEBLACK
April 1, 2018
Thaler is seen as one of the founders of behavioural economics, and in 2017 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work challenging conventional economic wisdom about how people behave. Traditionally, economists constructing economic theories have treated people as well-informed,Ãâà...
AlterNet
March 31, 2018
... own economic theories on poor communities without really asking what the people living in those communities want. Many who read Moeller's book will be surprised to hear these criticisms of the girl effect, thanks to marketing campaigns that have normalized the economic theory to a ubiquitous extent.
ETF.com
March 30, 2018
While SRI, as well as the broader category of environmental, social and governance investing, continues to gain in popularity, economic theory suggests that if a large enough proportion of investors chooses to avoid “sin” businesses, the share prices of such companies will be depressed. They will have aÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Corporate tax cuts will put billions of dollars back in the hands of businesses this year. Naturally, people want to know how those businesses will spend it. But the answer doesn't really matter, at least not for understanding whether the tax cuts were a good idea. That's because the economic case forÃâà...
Berkshire Eagle
March 30, 2018
The other day, as I was scraping snow and ice off my windshield after work, it occurred to me that there are myriad things with which our current president has absolutely no familiarity (in addition to foreign policy, the separation of powers, economic theory, military affairs, the truth, and other items useful forÃâà...
WTSP.com
March 30, 2018
The more the economy grows, the more everyone benefits. Well, that's the way the story is supposed to go, according to supply-side economists. Does it work? That depends on who you ask and it opens up a complicated argument involving lots of economic theory and subjective metrics which will leaveÃâà...
Berkshire Eagle
March 30, 2018
The other day, as I was scraping snow and ice off my windshield after work, it occurred to me that there are myriad things with which our current president has absolutely no familiarity (in addition to foreign policy, the separation of powers, economic theory, military affairs, the truth, and other items useful forÃâà...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
March 29, 2018
Humanity has begun to take a back seat to economic theory. Misguided “solutions” are proposed by those with no direct experience with poverty or contact with victimized communities. With repetition, a lie becomes ingrained truth and from this lack of understanding, inherent discrimination is borne.
The Edge Markets MY
March 29, 2018
The mathematical formulations of economic theory rely on three basic assumptions: radical individualism, a universal utilitarian calculus, and a natural tendency towards economic equilibrium. Each of these assumptions is false. In fact, people always work together, their motivations are always complicated,Ãâà...
YourObserver.com
March 29, 2018
Florida's Constitution Revision Commission recently denied a promising proposal that would have given consumers the right to choose their electricity provider and the source of the electricity they consume. Such a shift would usher in a wave of competition that would lower prices for consumers, bring inÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 28, 2018
In theory, Trump might have developed an economic theory that Amazon is inappropriately benefitting from public policy, and have drawn critical conclusions about the journalism at the Post, and it is merely a coincidence that the same person, Jeff Bezos, owns both businesses. In practice, Trump makes noÃâà...
City A.M.
March 27, 2018
The argument about how prices, in this case the hourly PwC rate, are set goes back a long way in economic theory. In the decades just before the First World War, two highly accomplished mathematicians who occupied the top chairs in economics, Alfred Marshall at Cambridge and Francis Edgeworth atÃâà...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
March 27, 2018
The event was sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute and the UMass Economic Department's Economic Theory Workshop, which sponsors economics lectures and events at UMass. The workshop is run by UMass economics professor Donald Katzner, who encouraged anyone with anÃâà...
NYOOOZ
March 25, 2018
It is important to understand application of economic theories to answer high order thinking questions.Be updated with current affairs, especially government policies and global issues, to write impactful answers and crack the paper. Nagpur: The economics paper is well balanced as it contains questions ofÃâà...
NYOOOZ
March 25, 2018
It is important to understand application of economic theories to answer high order thinking questions.Be updated with current affairs, especially government policies and global issues, to write impactful answers and crack the paper. NAGPUR: The economics paper is well balanced as it contains questionsÃâà...
The Times
March 25, 2018
It is reassuring, for those of us who write about economics, when things happen the way economic theory says they should. When unemployment is low, pay pressure should increase — and it is finally happening. Though the latest official figures were not as clean as might have been hoped — the numberÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 17, 2018
Economic theory also gives reason to worry. In 1971, economist Thomas Schelling showed that even if people have only a slight preference toward living around others of their own race, it can lead to very segregated neighborhoods in the long-term. He famously predicted a “tipping point” where white flightÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
March 15, 2018
... creatively described using economic theories, and finally a publicly held panel interview. Archit Jain from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, won the Budding Economist of South Asia 2018 award. The panel re-iterated that as Ambassadors of One South Asia, students need to strive for continuous improvementÃâà...
Vanity Fair
March 15, 2018
The White House confirmed the report on Wednesday afternoon, and a formal announcement is expected on Thursday. In Kudlow, Trump apparently saw a track record that was too good to pass up, what with Kudlow's time in the Reagan administration espousing trickle-down economic theories that haveÃâà...
The Independent
March 15, 2018
Losing weight is no mean feat, and just about every Tom, Dick and Harriet will preach their own set of “golden rules”. While restrictive diets and gruelling workout regimes might be most people's first dieting port-of-call, two formerly obese economists argue that the real secret to losing weight is actually downÃâà...
The Herald Bulletin
March 12, 2018
The economic theory (and “theory” is important) was that not all sectors would perform equally well in a normal economy. What economic theory? The rationale was that in good times, sectors such as industrials and discretionary consumer products would do better than other sectors. Similarly, categoriesÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 10, 2018
Adam Smith, 18th century Scottish philosopher, sometimes considered to be the “father” of modern economic theory. The resignation of Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, has gotten the Disney-like World of Washington into another bad case of the vapors. Cohn, a former president ofÃâà...
The Heartland Institute
March 10, 2018
The study examined children's test scores in 52 countries to see whether the data support the economic theory that private schools improve outcomes by putting competitive pressure on other schools, plus the proposition school choice provides a better match between teachers and pupils. The statisticsÃâà...
Economic Times (blog)
March 9, 2018
According to economic theory, fiscal rules can help governments build a reputation for fiscal discipline. This, apparently, mitigates the bias towards higher budget deficits and debt accumulation that characterises the political process of budgeting. This may also positively impact a country's sovereign ratingÃâà...
The Guardian
March 8, 2018
This seemed counter to what I knew about economic theory so I spent 4 months reading nothing but books on economics (thanks Lancaster University). ... The only people suggesting the austerity measures were doing so on ideological grounds and the only economic theories proposing it were untestedÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 8, 2018
“Women are invisible when you study economic theories. Economics, especially ... Many study other social sciences such as politics, anthropology or history, which incorporate economic theory, but through approaches that might appear traditionally more relatable to women. A more pluralist degree invitesÃâà...
Business Recorder
March 8, 2018
From the perspective of economic theory, the disparity between debt and deficit is not quite a source of concern if it is within certain limits. State Minister for Finance Rana Mohammad Afzal Khan, instead of citing economic theory and claiming that Pakistan had never defaulted on its debt so far, a rationaleÃâà...
iNews
March 6, 2018
It will be detailed, painfully dull, steeped in traditional economic theory, and, if you believe some of the most influential minds in modern economics, could prove ultimately fatal. ... “The challenges of the 21st century are unprecedented and last century's economic theories were never written to take them on.
Macleans.ca
March 6, 2018
Stock markets can erase national debt? Trump invented a decades-old economic theory last year? On both counts, not so much. by Nick Taylor-Vaisey. Mar 5, 2018. 0. Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with leaders of the steel and aluminum industry at the White House on March 1, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (WinÃâà...
Lexology
March 2, 2018
Prior to the appeal being heard, a group of 36 economists affiliated with top universities across the country filed an amicus brief explaining that the district court used a faulty economic theory when it denied the injunction. The brief highlighted two interrelated errors by the district court. First, the district courtÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 2, 2018
Is there anything peculiarly “African” about this process, or are all business people the conventional profit-maximising individuals of free market economic theory? The answer here informs the related policy question as to whether South Africa needs to develop a dedicated indigenous law of contract.
Lexington Herald Leader
March 2, 2018
They're not needed, according to the laissez-faire, hands-off, economic theory because the unregulated free market will correct itself. The “unseen hand” of the market, guided by the free choice of millions of consumers, will reward good companies and punish the unscrupulous. That, at least, is the theory.
malaysiandigest.com
March 1, 2018
Barisan Nasional Strategic Communications Deputy Director Datuk Eric See-To further chided the former Teluk Intan by-election candidate for her complete ignorance of basic economic theory in the opinions she expressed. "There are many many things wrong with Dyana Sofea's childish and frankly,Ãâà...
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