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AuthorBraatoy, Bjorne
AuthorBRADSHAW, JAMES STANFORD
AuthorBRAEMAN, JOHN
AuthorBRAESTRUP, PETER
AuthorBrailsford, H. N.
AuthorBrailsford, Henry N.
AuthorBrailsford, Henry Noel
AuthorBramley, Fred
AuthorBrandes, George
AuthorBrandt, Albert A.
AuthorBRANDT, ALLAN M.
AuthorBRANDT, WILLY
AuthorBrannan, Charles F.
AuthorBranstetter, Otto
AuthorBRAUER, MAX
AuthorBraunthal, Alfred
AuthorBraunthal, Julius
AuthorBREE, GERMAINE
AuthorBreier, Louis S.
AuthorBREINDEL, ERIC
AuthorBreit, Harvey
AuthorBreitscheid, Rudolf
AuthorBrereton, Geoffrey
AuthorBRESLIN, PAUL
AuthorBreslow, Alfred
AuthorBRICKMAN, WILLIAM W.
AuthorBRICKNER, RICHARD P.
AuthorBRICKNER, RICHARD P.
AuthorBriggs, Richard M.
AuthorBRIGHT, LEONARD
AuthorBRIGHTMAN, CAROL
AuthorBRILLIANT, MOSHE
AuthorBRINKLEY, DOUGLAS
AuthorBrisby, Liliana
AuthorBrittain, Robert
AuthorBroach, H. H.
AuthorBROCKAY, GEORGE P.
AuthorBROCKMANN, STEPHEN
AuthorBROCKWAY 13, GEORGE p.
AuthorBROCKWAY, CEORGE P.
AuthorBROCKWAY, GEORCE P
AuthorBROCKWAY, GEORGE P .
AuthorBROCKWAY, GEORGE P.
Paid articleWhy the Trade Deficit is a Blessing (July 2001)
The Dismal Science Why the Trade Deficit is a Blessing By George P. Brockway For years almost beyond counting we had the budget deficit to worry about and argue over, and for some 30 years...
Paid articleNew Use for a Bad Idea (September 2000)
The Dismal Science New Use for a Bad Idea By George P. Brockway In economics, no bad idea goes unused. This is perhaps to be expected in a discipline that prides itself on being the...
Paid articleA New New Theory (July 2000)
The Dismal Science A New New Theory By George P. Brockway Two years ago, the hope was expressed here that the Federal Reserve Board was on the verge of learning how a modern capitalist...
Paid articleWhy Free Trade is Nut Fair (March 2000)
The Dismal Science Why Free Trade Is Not Fair By George P. Brockway Let me say at once that aside from a few broken windows, I believe the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in...
Paid articleWhy We Must Have A Recession (August 1999)
The Dismal Science WHY WE MUST HAVE A RECESSION By George ? Brockway Probably at least once in every one of the 18 years I've been writing this column, I have made fun of an obiter dictum of...
Paid articleLessons from the Depression (August 1999)
The Dismal Science LESSONS FROM THE DEPRESSION By George P. Brockway The new Congressional committee created ostensibly to reach a nonpartisan solution to the Social Security "crisis"...
Paid articleWhy NAIRU is Nonsense (May 1999)
The Dismal Science WHY NAIRU IS NONSENSE By George P. Brockway Many years ago, when I was a college undergraduate, there was some talk on campus about The Fountainhead, a massive novel by...
Paid articleThe Love Song of Homo Economicus (March 1999)
The Dismal Science THE LOVE SONG OF HOMO ECONOMICUS By George ? Brockway T. S. Eliot sang of "Songs that follow like a tedious argument/ Of insidious intent/To lead you to an overwhelming...
Paid articleInterest Rates I've Known (January 1999)
The Dismal Science INTEREST RATES I'VE KNOWN By George P. Brockway Friends have been congratulating me on bringing the Federal Reserve Board around to my way of thinking about the interest...
Paid articleLearning From Russia (November 1998)
The Dismal Science LEARNING FROM RUSSIA By George ? Brockway This is our learning year. At least it is a year of learning opportunities. Whether we're capable of actually learning...
Paid articleA Fortunate Experiment (August 1998)
The Dismal Science A FORTUNATE EXPERIMENT By George ? Brockway One of the mysteries of life in the United States today is why we are not in the midst of a raging inflation, a depressing...
Paid articleLearning from Japan (May 1998)
The Dismal Science LEARNING FROM JAPAN By George ? Brockway The economics profession and the military are similar in many ways, but they differ in one important respect. Generals are...
Paid articleMoynihan's Social Security Hocus-Pocus (March 1998)
The Dismal Science MOYNIHAN'S SOCIAL SECURITY HOCUS-POCUS By George ? Brockway On March 16 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered a speech titled "Social Security Saved!" at Harvard's...
Paid articleBeware of Your Cronies (January 1998)
The Dismal Science BEWARE OF YOUR CRONIES By George ? Brockway The papers say the East Asian Debacle (previously known as the East Asian Miracle) was caused by something new under the...
Paid articleA Question of Humanity (November 1997)
The Dismal Science A QUESTION OF HUMANITY By George P. Brockway As we move from welfare-aswe-knew-it to welfare-as-wehave-never-known-it, an often acrimonious debate is continuing...
Paid articleWhy a Zero Deficit Means Failure (September 1997)
The Dismal Science WHY A ZERO DEFICIT MEANS FAILURE By George ? Brockway I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think it important for us to realize that the United States of America is about...
Paid articleMadness Is Not Statesmanship (August 1997)
The Dismal Science MADNESS IS NOT STATESMANSHIP By George ? Brockway I submit that it's time to give it up, quit, call a halt, put an end to the nonsense and the grief it has caused. The...
Paid articleWhy I Want to Shake Alan Greenspan (May 1997)
The Dismal Science WHY I WANT TO SHAKE ALAN GREENSPAN By George P. Brockway In Congressional testimony, Chairman Alan P. Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Board has talked, in his gnomic...
Paid articleThe Lie of Supply and Demand (March 1997)
The Dismal Science THE LIE OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND By George P. Brockway The recent four-cents-a-pack boost in the wholesale price of RJR Nabisco's line of cigarettes, the reactions of...
Paid articleDeceptively Obvious Economics (November 1996)
The Dismal Science DECEPTIVELY OBVIOUS ECONOMICS BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY I want to tell you about a new book you probably will not quickly hear about elsewhere. It is not the sort of book most...
Paid articleCaught in a Boom Market (September 1996)
The Dismal Science CAUGHT IN A BOOM MARKET BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY ON OCTOBER 15,1929,less than two weeks before the worst crash in the history of any stock market anywhere, one of America's most...
Paid articleWhat Does It Cost You to Live? (June 1996)
The Dismal Science WHAT DOES IT COST YOU TO LIVE? BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY THE ENTRY in this space for April 5,1982, was titled "Let's Put Indexing on the Index." The occasion was a Reagan...
Paid articleThe Assumed Employment Virus (January 1996)
The Dismal Science THE ASSUMED EMPLOYMENT VIRUS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I SEE BY THE PAPERS that big corporations are downsizing their economics departments. IBM and GE have eliminated theirs...
Paid articleJapan Does It Again (October 1995)
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Paid articleWhat Greenspan Really Told Congress (July 1995)
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Paid articleThe Enemy Is Us (March 1995)
The Dismal Science THE ENEMY IS US BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY HARDLY A DAY goes by without your being asked by a political party or a news organization or some other public-spirited body to name the...
Paid articleThe Phantom Tax Cut (January 1995)
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Paid articleJunk Mail from Concord (November 1994)
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Paid articlePracticing 'Escalatio' on the Economy (September 1994)
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Paid articlePlaying the China Card (July 1994)
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Paid articleUnemployment Japanese Style (May 1994)
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Paid articleEnding Welfare As We Know It (March 1994)
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Paid articleMaking a Mess of Russia (January 1994)
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Paid articleHealth, Wealth and Taxes (October 1993)
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Paid articleWhy Productivity Will Undo Clintonomics (May 1993)
The Dismal Science WHY PRODUCTIVITY WILL UNDO CLINTONOMICS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The flrst column in this series, almost 12 years ago, was titled "Why Speculation Will Undo Reaganomics" (NL,...
Paid articleClinton's Supply Side (January 1993)
The Dismal Science CLINTON'S SUPPLY SIDE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Little Rock "economic summit" was one of the most moving and inspiring and uplifting events in recent public life....
Paid articleThe Illogic of Leanness and Meanness (November 1992)
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Paid articleThe Malignity of Capital Gains (September 1992)
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Paid articleAre You Naturally Unemployed? (August 1992)
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Paid articleThe Last Chapter in Keynes (June 1992)
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Paid articleWhere Schumpeter Went Astray (April 1992)
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Paid articleThe Key to Consumption (March 1992)
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Paid articleMister Bush, Meet Mister Hoover (January 1992)
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Paid articleTaxing Our Credulity (December 1991)
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Paid articleThe Long and Short of Interest Rates (October 1991)
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Paid articleThe Tintinnabulation of the Baby Bells (July 1991)
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Paid articleWhere Keynes and Kalecki Went Wrong (April 1991)
The Dismal Science WHERE KEYNES AND KALECKI WENT WRONG BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Every now and then a learned journal carries an article, or a think tank issues a report, that effects a...
Paid articleDon't Bank on the Banks (February 1991)
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Paid articleOur Austerity Recession (January 1991)
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Paid articleA Road Eastern Europe Could Take (November 1990)
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Paid articleWhat Color Is Your Recession? (October 1990)
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Paid articleWho Killed the Savings and Loans? (September 1990)
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Paid articleBunk About Junk (April 1990)
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Paid articleDon't Cash Your Peace Dividend (March 1990)
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Paid articleSocial Gains and Capital Security (February 1990)
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Paid article100 Million Children Can Be Wronged (January 1990)
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Paid articlePollution??"Going Once, Going Twice... (October 1989)
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Paid articleSomething Seems Unbalanced (September 1989)
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Paid articleExxon and Squatter Economics (August 1989)
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Paid articleThe Reserve's Silly New Equation (June 1989)
The Dismal Science THE RESERVE'S SILLY NEW EQUATION BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY IN his excellent and comprehensive book about the Federal Reserve Board, Secrets of the Temple, William...
Paid articleMinimum Wage vs. Maximum Confusion (April 1989)
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Paid articleHow We Can Control the Interest Rate (March 1989)
The Dismal Science HOW WE CAN CONTROL THE INTEREST RATE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY IN three recent contributions to this space I have argued that the conventional theories of inflation are...
Paid articleThe Truth About Inflation (February 1989)
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Paid articleBankers Have the Classic COLA (January 1989)
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Paid articleReality and Welfare Reform (November 1988)
The Dismal Science REALITY AND WELFARE REFORM BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The giveaway of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's new Family Security Act—aka welfare reform—is its cost. I don't mean...
Paid articleThe Fear of Full Employment (October 1988)
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Paid articleBush's New Trojan Horse (September 1988)
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Paid articleEyeing the Social Security Surplus (August 1988)
The Dismal Science EYEING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Social Security system is again in the news. Maybe"still" rather than "again." A decade or so ago a radio...
Paid articleHow Good is Greed? (May 1988)
The Dismal Science HOW GOOD IS GREED? BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The other day, in talking about profit maximization and utility maximization, we refrained from referring to their common,...
Paid articleOn the Matter of Consumption (April 1988)
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Paid articleServing Two Maximizers (March 1988)
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Paid articleCatch a Falling Dollar (February 1998)
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Paid articleBursting the Supply-Side Bubble (November 1987)
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Paid articleThe Golden Mean (November 1987)
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Paid articleOf Taxes and Deficits (October 1987)
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Paid articleVale, Volcker (June 1987)
The Dismal Science VALE, VOLCKER BY GEORGE ? BROCKWAY A couple of years ago, Mayor Edward I. Koch was asked who was responsible for pulling New York City back from the brink of bankruptcy....
Paid articleProfiting from the Medigap (April 1987)
The Dismal Science PROFITING FROM THE MEDIGAP BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY Having been house-bound for a few days recently, I watched a lot of daytime TV. It's something everyone should...
Paid articleBishops Move Diagonally (March 1987)
The Dismal Science BISHOPS MOVE DIAGONALLY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I've been reading a document called "Economic Justice for All." It is the pastoral "letter" (a small book, actually) approved...
Paid articleFinance and Free Trade (February 1987)
The Dismal Science FINANCE AND FREE TRADE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY When the Republicans lost control of the Senate, Wall Street was loud in its prophecies of doom and gloom to follow...
Paid articleBrockway's Paradox (December 1986)
The Dismal Science BROCKWAY'S PARADOX BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Judging from newspaper reports, Professor James M. Buchanan of George Mason University won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics last...
Paid articleA Requiem for Monetarism (October 1986)
The Dismal Science A REQUIEM FOR MONETARISM BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY Beryl W. Sprinkel has given up on monetarism, at least for now. He said as much in a speech recently and stirred some excitement...
Paid articleNew Ways to Get Rich (September 1986)
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Paid articleLearning From Macy's (July 1986)
The Dismal Science LEARNING FROM MACY'S BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY Like the Ancient Mariner, we war veterans have a glittering eye. (I have seen mine reflected, dully, in my grandchildren's eyes as...
Paid articleJunk Bonds and Watered Stock (March 1986)
The Dismal Science JUNK BONDS AND WATERED STOCK BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY In the 1920s, bond salesmen were admired and envied. Later, when Wall Street laid its egg, they became butts of bitter jests...
Paid articleBecoming a Debtor Nation (February 1986)
The Dismal Science BECOMING A DEBTOR NATION BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY surpassing Brazil, the present leader. Mention of South America's biggest country causes our hearts to miss a beat. Only a decade...
Paid articleChoking to Death On Cream (January 1986)
The Dismal Science CHOKING TO DEATH ON CREAM BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY On a recent Sunday the New York Times ran a long story headlined, "Waking Up to the Glut Economy." A series of "graphics"...
Paid articleThe Pathetic Fallacy in Economics (November 1985)
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Paid articleMercantilism Revisited (October 1985)
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Paid articleThe Chicken and the Egg (September 1985)
The Dismal Science THE CHICKEN AND THE EGG BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY As I write , the great deficit debate is out of the headlines, and it may still be out when you read this. The news of the fall...
Paid articleStrolling Down the Road to Serfdom (July 1985)
The Dismal Science STROLLING DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM BY GEORGE P BROCK WAY In the Preface to their best seller Free to Choose, Milton and Rose Friedman write, "We are still free as a people to...
Paid articleStarving All the Way from the Bank (May 1985)
The Dismal Science STARVING ALLTHEWAY FROM THE BANK BY GEORGE PBROCKWAY To write this I had to turn off a television show featuring a rock star, eyes closed in rapture or agony or something,...
Paid articleFaint Praise for Profit Sharing (March 1985)
The Dismal Science FAINT PRAISE FOR PROFIT SHARING BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY In making the case "For a Labor Theory of Right" (NL, February 11-25), I remarked that "if you review all the problems of...
Paid articleThe Faith of Fiduciaries (December 1984)
The Dismal Science THE FAITH OF FIDUCIARIES BY GEORGE R. BROCKWAY In a recent issue of the Wall Street Journal, Peter F. Drucker, the most prolific authority on the modern corporation, made an...
Paid article'Trust Funds' (October 1984)
The Dismal Science 'TRUST FUNDS' BY GEORGE R. BROCKWAY I see by the papers that the New York State Education Department is preparing a new social studies curriculum that will include a year's...
Paid articleBig Is Ugly (September 1984)
The Dismal Science BIG IS UGY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Continental Illinois and the Financial Corporation of America bailouts, although different in nature, have one glaringly obvious lesson...
Paid articleCivility and Labor Relations (June 1984)
The Dismal Science CIVILITY AND LABOR RELATIONS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY In two mind-opening books on money (Money and the Real World and International Money and the Real World) Paul Davidson,...
Paid articleVoodoo on the Primary Trail (April 1984)
The Dismal Science VOODOO ON THE PRIMARY TRAIL BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Democratic Presidential primary campaign that is now drawing to a close can be counted as another of the evil consequences...
Paid articleDubious Entitlements (February 1984)
The Dismal Science DUBIOUS ENTITLEMENTS BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY It is assumed that a lender is entitled to get his money back when a loan he has made matures. It is further assumed that he is...
Paid articleA Cautionary Tale of Tax Reform (January 1984)
The Dismal Science A CAUTIONARY TALE OF TAX REFORM BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Something over a year ago, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Congressman Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri put...
Paid articleAppearance and Reality in Economics (December 1983)
The Dismal Science APPEARANCE AND REALITY IN ECONOMICS BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY A delusion appears from time to time in philosophy whereby appearance and reality are so separated that, as Charles...
Paid articleIf This Be Rabble-Rousing (November 1983)
The Dismal Science IF THIS BE RABBLE-ROUSING BY GEORGE PBROCKWAY Afriend has taken exception to my proposal to limit or forbid the importation of foreign manufactures that threaten to destroy...
Paid articleThe Savings Bust (October 1983)
The Dismal Science THE SAVINGS BUST BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Constant readers of this column have foreseen since The New Leader issue of March 8,1982, what last month burst like a paper bag full of...
Paid articleThe Way to Protect (September 1983)
The Dismal Science THE WAY TO PROTECT BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Last month (NL, August 8-22) I suggested that the world's Less Developed Countries might be better off if we denied their manufactures...
Paid articleThe Wages of Exploitation (August 1983)
The Dismal Science THE WAGES OF EXPLOITATION BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Last summer I wrote a couple of columns questioning the Atari Democrats' notion that we should write off our "sunset" industries...
Paid articleLife, Liberty and Property (July 1983)
The Dismal Science LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Ten score and seven years ago (give or take a few days) Thomas Jefferson undertook, with minor assistance from John Adams,...
Paid articleRereading Galbraith (June 1983)
The Dismal Science REREADING GALBRAITH BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY I have been rereading, 25 years later, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society Galbraith is one of the great economists of our...
Paid articleSinking by the Numbers (May 1983)
The Dismal Science SINKING BY THE NUMBERS BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY I have been reading with great interest but no sense of urgency (I've had it for four months) the Economic Report of the President...
Paid articleOn Political Arithmetic (April 1983)
The Dismal Science ON POLITICAL ARITHMETIC BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY "I have no great faith," confessed Adam Smith, "in political arithmetic." The great Smith's great modern successor, John Maynard...
Paid articleEliminating Frictional Unemployment (March 1983)
The Dismal Science ELIMINATING FRICTIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY In my January column ("Loving and Working," NL, January 10), I made an offhand comment to the effect that Federal...
Paid articleThe Psychology of Economists (February 1983)
The Dismal Science THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMISTS BY GEORGE P BROCK WAY Acuriosity of economic thought is its frequent dependence on what economists call psychology. My choice of words is...
Paid articleLoving and Working (January 1983)
The Dismal Science LOVING AND WORKING BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY On New Year's Day I made my annual start at cleaning up my desk, and first off I threw out a big pile of clippings. They all had to do...
Paid articleMidterm Excuses (November 1982)
The Dismal Science MIDTERM EXCUSES BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY By the time this reaches you, the election returns will be in and the pundits may well have finished talking about them. As I write,...
Paid articleAt the Top of the Tax Pyramid (October 1982)
The Dismal Science AT THE TOP OF THE TAX PYRAMID BY GEORGE P.BROCKWAY Last month, in this space, in the course of an argument against a flat-rate income tax, I offered some reflections on the way...
Paid articleSimplify, Simplify (September 1982)
The Dismal Science SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFY BY GEORGE PBROCKWAY The new tax law is, by and large, a wonder. Wall Street evidently was excited by the revenue-raising aspects of it, but that euphoria is...
Paid articleHow Our Sun May Rise Again (July 1982)
The Dismal Science HOW OUR SUN MAY RISE AGAIN BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Anote in Thomas Balogh's stimulating new book, The Irrelevance of Conventional Economics, tells the following story When...
Paid articleAmerica's Setting Sun (June 1982)
The Dismal Science AMERICAS SETTING SUN BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY I first became conscious of the Japanese as supermen many years ago, when the 240th Coast Artillery of the Maine National Guard, in...
Paid articleHow Micro Minds Make Macro Mistakes (May 1982)
The Dismal Science HOW MICRO MINDS MAKE MACRO MISTAKES BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY AN OLD TEACHER of mine once tried to "motivate" (a word he would never have used) his sullen pupils by arguing that...
Paid articleLet's Put Indexing on the Index (April 1982)
The Dismal Science LET'S PUT INDEXING ON THE INDEX BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY THE REAGAN Administration is finally taking a sensible and practical (though partial) step toward solving the inflation—and...
Paid articleWhy Deficits Matter (March 1982)
The Dismal Science WHY DEFICITS MATTER BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY MY HEAD is spinning-which is not surprising, for I have been reading a circular argument If you read much economics, you encounter a...
Paid articleProductivity: The New Shell Game (February 1982)
The Dismal Science PRODUCTIVITY THE NEW SHELL GAME BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY WILLIAM SIMON WE HAVE a new economic sport in town OskarMor-genstem's theory of games has been with us for decades...
Paid articleTrickle-Down Greed (January 1982)
The Dismal Science TRICKLE-DOWN GREED BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY THE REAGAN Administration has not managed the feat single-handedly, and we may hope that it will not be completely successful, but in...
Paid articleZeroing in on Thurow (December 1981)
Perspectives ZEROING IN ON THUROW BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY The other day, as I was going down in an elevator with a black activist friend of mine, we were joined by a young black messenger who pulled...
Paid articleCaveat Venditor (November 1981)
Perspectives CAVEAT VENDITOR BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY JAMES C. MILLER III The new Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, James C. Miller III, must be surprised at the initial flak he has had to...
Paid articleCorrespondents' Correspondence Beware the Sup-symps (May 1981)
Beware the Sup-symps New York-One of the disappointments many of us have felt with the present Congress is its failure to re-establish the House Un-Amencan Activities Committee (huac) There was...
Paid articleForeign Policy in a Bipolar World (January 1981)
Thinking Aloud FOREIGN POLICY IN A BIPOLAR WORLD BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Before his old broom sweeps it all away, Ronald Reagan should give careful thought to the possibility that some of Jimmy...
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