Posts Tagged ‘ economic history ’

Economic Schools of Thought

Jul 17th, 2008 | By Lord William Rees-Mogg | Category: Macro Economics
There are two ways of studying economic theory. One approach is mathematical, and has been much enhanced by the computing power available to the individual economist. The other is historical and relies on the accumulated understanding of economic theory and practice. The events of 2007 and 2008 have shown the limitations ...read more


Sea Change

Dec 5th, 2007 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Macro Economics
MARTIN SOSNOFF IS AN OLD HAND AT the investing game. He published a book in 1975 called Humble on Wall Street, a sort of punchy memoir recounting the sanity-trying stock market of the five years or so preceding the book’s publication. He had a lot of success managing money in the ...read more