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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>NGDP targeting: wither monetarism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monetarism is like a Zombie: it can be found theoretically wanting, empirically false and technically infeasible but in one form or another it just soldiers on.  In some ways the hype surrounding the conversation about the possibility of moving from &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/ngdp-targeting-wither-monetarism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2549&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RPPE going ORG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be transitioning to our own domain name and hosting services over the next couple of weeks thanks to some outside donations. We should have done this earlier. Thanks to all our readers and the great support. Filed under: &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/rppe-going-org/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2552&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulative austerity bearing fruit in Britain? Not.  Nor globally</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Osborne was quick out of the gates with the austerity as stimulus gambit.  Which as everybody from myself to Paul Krugman predicted was going to be a flop.  Osborne has been trying to save face by arguing that his &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/stimulative-austerity-bearing-fruit-in-britain-not-nor-globally/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2547&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gangster Capitalism: Same as it ever was?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are going to read one thing and just one thing on the financial crisis and how it is working itself out you need to read this blog post at naked capitalism:  the one stop shop for understanding contemporary &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/gangster-capitalism-same-as-it-ever-was/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2545&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Returns to education: from a sure thing to a trip to vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman has pointed out, here and here that the meme that most of the inequality we have been experiencing of late has much to do with differences in educational attainment is bogus.  Mankiw responds in typical fashion by changing &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/returns-to-education-from-a-sure-thing-to-a-trip-to-vegas/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2543&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Economy Lab in the Globe which Failed, which itself has gone from bad to worse, one of the economists they keep in their stable has either produced an extraordinarily naive analysis or a dishonest one.  I am &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/the-dark-ages-of-free-trade-theory-the-naive-view-on-natural-resources-and-economic-development/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2537&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Anti-Mankiw Blog and some alternative introductions to economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new economics blog on the nets dedicated to an analysis of Mankiw&#8217;s blog.  Reminds me of the anti-Samuelson text book which served as one of my textbooks for an introduction to economics.  That and Harcourt&#8217;s seminal text &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/new-anti-mankiw-blog-and-some-alternative-introductions-to-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2531&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain paradox in what just happened in Ohio.  Thanks to the provision in some states for direct democracy as opposed to a singular reliance on representative democracy a Republican law that would have in all but name &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/republican-attack-on-collective-bargaining-halted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2529&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rebel Letter to Mankiw and some thoughts on education in economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I noted that 10 percent of Mankiw&#8217;s students walked out of his class to protest what they, rightly believed, to be a heavily biased introduction to economics.  I think the students are right.  Introductory courses are meant to introduce &#8230; <a href="http://rppe.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-rebels-letter-to-mankiw-and-some-thoughts-on-education-in-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rppe.wordpress.com&amp;blog=614355&amp;post=2522&amp;subd=rppe&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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