Jim- Are you an advocate of IS-LM??
Is this analysis totally wrong?
At 10:42 AM 12/13/00 -0600, you wrote:
Jim- Are you an advocate of IS-LM??
No, but ISLM provides a good language for the _start_ of a discussion,
since almost every macroeconomist knows it. For example, Paul Davidson, a
well-known anti-ISLMicist, uses IS-LM in his paper on the finance demand
Yoshie- I would say Miyabe's book gives a very different view of consumer credit
in Japan than what you put forward. It does argue that there are a group of
people who do not go for credit cards, but this is not due to their
unavailability, etc. I will try to type a few paragraphs in later. Some
By the way, is it cool that Yoshie is evaluating Levy working papers and I
am
discussing Japanese novels, or is this scary?!
Fantastically cool, Matt! Only a jack of all trades can really aspire to be
master of one! Especially when the one in question is political economy,
eh? I realise it's
At 04:29 AM 12/14/00 +1000, you wrote:
Fantastically cool, Matt! Only a jack of all trades can really aspire to be
master of one!
or jill of all trades, in Yoshie's case.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Thanks, Dennis. Can you provide some references?
Peter
Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Peter Dorman wrote:
investment. The structural question is whether the elimination of
these unproductive investments, and the resulting financial drag, can
be accomplished within
At 01:45 PM 12/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
One consideration regarding Japan is that, so far as I understand, Japan's
deficit
has been used for massive public works spending, which could mean greater
productivity in the future.
on the other hand, I've heard that they've actually encountered
Well, this refers to the fiscal deficit, which is not such a big problem (compared to
the financial fragility problem). Also, according to Bill Tabb's book on Japan (and
other sources I've seen), "infrastructural" spending in Japan comes pretty close to
Keynes' admonition to dig holes and fill
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At 01:45 PM 12/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
One consideration regarding Japan is that, so far as I understand, Japan's
deficit
has been used for
