Posts Tagged ‘ employment ’

The Economic Impossibility of John Maynard Keynes

Mar 24th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Macro Economics
What shall we do with those people deprived of work by wealth and technology...? How to fill the days, hours and minutes? It’s now seven decades since John Maynard Keynes peered into the future and declared that, one day, trying to scratch a living would cease being “the permanent problem of ...read more

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Unlimited Economic Growth: What Is the Economy?

Feb 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
We routinely talk about "the economy" as if it were a self-evident concept. We say "the economy is growing" and "the economy is in bad shape," without really discussing what it is exactly that we're referring to. There are three measures we use more or less interchangeably when we discuss ...read more

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Relationship Management 101

Jan 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
I received a phone call today from a professor of an esteemed university offering to teach a class on relationship management right here on Whiskey & Gunpowder. I was initially skeptical, and it took a bit of persuasion on his part, but once I heard a synopsis of the lessons, ...read more

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