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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Capital controls, the financial crisis, and the developing countries
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The recent financial crisis has reignited debate on capital controls. Before the crisis, most financial institutions believed government con...
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Definite economic meltdown with indefinite bandas in Nepal
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My latest piece is about the economic costs of the Maoist-imposed strike in Nepal. Yesterday, due to public and diplomatic pressure, the...
A brief history of economic crises
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The past 180 years offer a smorgasbord of financial crises to study. They include: The crisis of 1825-1826 – This global contagio...
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Krugman reviews “This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly”
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Krugman and Wells review of Rogoff and Reinhart’s new book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly . Excerpts from the r...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Esther Duflo on aid, development and RCTs
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Was the 2008 financial crisis unprecedented?
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Not at all! It would be a mistake to consider this crisis unprecedented and assume that "this time is different", according to a n...
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Book review: Freefall: America, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy
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[A review published in Trade Insight , Vol 6. No.1, 2010] Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics and a professor at Columbia...
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