Dynamism & Its Enemies: 2024 Austin Symposium Recap
This video recaps the 2024 Austin Symposium hosted on May 8, 2024 at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Economic Dynamism
The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.
Ignore 'Open Letters' From Economists
Don’t be swayed by “open” letters signed by well-known and well-respected scholars, experts, professors, and businessmen.
Demystifying the New Deal
Carola Binder reviews False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947 by George Selgin
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The Reign of the Greenback
The dollar is the world's overwhelmingly dominant currency, but it suffers from endemic consumer price inflation and recurring asset price inflation.
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
Measuring these trends is complicated, but the results of wage gains are encouraging.
