Economics Resources (page 11)

The effectiveness of monetary policy during a credit crunch . State: One of the main causes of the recent recession was banks lending money to firms and individuals who simply coul...

For over thirty years we have been told that inequality is simply a moral issue. After all, a rising tide lifts all boats. We should not worry about a widening gap as long as the poor...

Economic development is not an easy concept to define but can be considered to mean an increase in living standards for the people of a country or region, which must include the wor...

The root of economists' interest in entrepreneurial theory stems from a desire to define the entrepreneur in the context of the wider economy. The Classical and Neo-classical theorist...

John Maynard Keynes revolutionised macro-economic theory, arguing that frictions prevented markets from being fully flexible, introducing the role of uncertainty and promoting controv...

If you are a Finance Student, you are probably being taught a lot of theory about how Finance should be, and little about how it really is. Financial theories are just that, models tr...

This Time It's Different - Not! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Manias, Panics and Crashes: Kindlebe...

De javu? We don't live and learn argues Frank Lee The four most expensive words in the English language is ''this time it's different.'' Sir John Templeton In the Autumn ...

Thomas Malthus arguably wrote the most influential essay on demographics ever in 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population examined the impossibility of the progress of society du...

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever is either a madman or an economist" - Kenneth Boulding For as long as economies, markets and governments have existed we ...