Alex Peek blog
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Jan Tinbergen: pioneer of economic modeling
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Fotograaf Onbekend (Anefo), CC0 1.0 Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) is an influential economist known f...
Friday, April 14, 2017
Ragnar Frisch's critique of macro econometrics
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Borgens Atelier Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973) was an influential economist and is sometimes regarded as...
Milton Friedman and free markets
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, CC0 1.0 Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a famous...
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Thomas Robert Malthus and the population problem
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , John Linnell, Wellcome Collection gallery Photo license: CC BY 4.0 Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
How to predict a financial crisis
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I believe economists would benefit from reading The Big Short by Michael Lewis. The book describes the story of how hedge fund manager...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Paul Krugman and economic theories
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Prolinserver Photo license: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Paul Krugman is an influential economist best known fo...
Monday, April 10, 2017
William Stanley Jevons and the calculus of pleasure and pain
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was an English economist best known for utility theory and promot...
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