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Memories of Professor James Buchanan

I first came across James Buchanan through his long-term collaborator and colleague, Professor Gordon Tullock. It must have been in 1972 or 1973. Gordon and I met by accident in Frankfurt, where I was interviewing the then president of the Bundesbank for The Banker, of which I was then editor. We had one of those…
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Written on January 13, 2013 at 9:26 pm, by robert

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Categories: Homepage, News and Comment, RP's Diary, The Ikon
Tags: Andrew Crockett, David Graeber, Debt The First 5000 years, global financial system, Gordon Tullock, IMF, Interlaken Seminars, James Buchanan, Karl Brunner, Keith Hart, Michael Jensen, public choice, Public Choice Centre, Robert Skidelsky, Skidelsky, Tyler Cowen

Keynes, Mundell and The Money Trap

Most economic commentary, such as that of Roubini, falls into this category (see Diary of 21/11/12). The “analysis” amounts to saying: “Oh, what a mess we are in!” We knew that already. Some vary their message by claiming to detect chinks of light in the gloom. Others conclude by saying things like, “If only the…
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Written on November 24, 2012 at 11:56 am, by robert

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Categories: "Gold", Homepage, News and Comment, RP's Diary
Tags: Bloomsbury, Cambridge, financial crisis, GFC, global financial system, Keynes, Keynesian, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Mundell, Skidelsky, The Money Trap, UK Treasury, US monetary policy