The Best of Business Economics: Highlights from the First Fifty Years

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
1967: A New Look at Monetary and Fiscal Policy....Pages 3-7
1969: The Role of Money in Economic Activity: Complicated or Simple?....Pages 9-18
1969: Econometric Model Building for Growth Projections....Pages 19-29
1971: Presidential Address: The Challenge to our System....Pages 31-37
1970: The Social Significance of Environmental Pollution....Pages 39-45
1971: The Productivity Slow-Down....Pages 47-57
1973: Why Productivity is Important....Pages 59-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
1975: Presidential Address Nabe and the Business Forecaster....Pages 67-73
1975: Thoughts on Inflation: the Basic Forces....Pages 75-84
1975: The Practical use of Economic Analysis in Investment Management....Pages 85-94
1979: Presidential Address on Human Welfare....Pages 95-103
1981: Company Total Factor Productivity: Refinements, Production Functions, and Certain Effects of Regulation....Pages 105-119
1983: The Adam Smith Address Conservatives, Economists, and Neckties....Pages 121-128
1982: Economics From Three Perspectives....Pages 129-136
1984: The Adam Smith Address was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian?....Pages 137-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
1987: The Adam Smith Address the Effect of Government on Economic Efficiency....Pages 151-160
1988: The Adam Smith Address on the Structure of an Economy: a Re-Emphasis of Some Classical Foundations....Pages 161-170
1988: Rethinking International Trade....Pages 171-179
1989: The Adam Smith Address the Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community....Pages 181-188
1990: A Guide to What is Known About Business Cycles....Pages 189-201
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
1991: Some Financial Perspectives on Comparative Costs of Capital....Pages 203-211
1993: Health Insurance Derivatives: the Newest Application of Modern Financial Risk Management....Pages 213-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
1996: The Adam Smith Address an Ambitious Agenda for Economic Growth....Pages 223-230
1998: The Adam Smith Address Capitalism and its Discontents....Pages 231-242
1999: Protecting Against the Next Financial Crisis: the Need to Reform Global Financial Oversight, the IMF, and Monetary Policy Goals....Pages 243-253
1999: How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model....Pages 255-270
2000: The Adam Smith Address what would Adam Smith say now?....Pages 271-277
2001: Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: a Review of the Evidence....Pages 279-290
2002: Presidential Address Understanding Inflation: Lessons From my Central Banking Career....Pages 291-304
2004: Managing Exchange Rates: Achievement of Global Re-Balancing or Evidence of Global Co-Dependency?....Pages 305-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
2007: The Adam Smith Address the Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules....Pages 321-333
2008: The Adam Smith Address Adam Smith and the Political Economy of Modern Financial Crisis....Pages 335-353
2009: Underwriting, Mortgage Lending, and House Prices: 1996–2008....Pages 355-375
2010: The Impact of the Housing Market Boom and Bust on Consumption Spending....Pages 377-392
2010: The Adam Smith Address Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-Crisis World....Pages 393-406
2011: The Adam Smith Address Nightmare on Kaiserstrasse....Pages 407-412
2013: The Adam Smith Address Financial Services and the Trust Deficit: Why the Industry Should Make Better Governance a Top Priority....Pages 413-420
2014: Us Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound....Pages 421-435
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
2011: Focus on Industries and Markets Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Equipment....Pages 439-453
2014: Focus on Statistics Initial Results of the 2012 Economic Census....Pages 455-467
Front Matter....Pages 437-437
2014: Economics at Work Economics at the American Chemistry Council....Pages 469-480