Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares I spent most of my working life in the US Forest Service, battling fundamentalism. Most of the battles dealt with economics. My first job was to coordinate use of a linear programming model (FORPLAN) in the development of forest plans. I remember one day in 1979, before I joined the Forest Service, having lunch with FORPLAN developer K. The FORPLAN Fiasco During the early years of US Forest Service "forest planning" (1979-1985, generally) there was a big problem with what we then called "analytical determinism." Rational-Planning Economics In about 1983 I took a step upward (so I thought) in the Forest Service, moving from Regional Operations Research Analyst to Regional Economist for the Intermountain Region. But long before then I began research into who else was in the battle against government rational planning economics. Ed Cone sums up the idea of "market worship", talking about the 2007-2008 financial implosion: As for the public lands, they want the government to disappear.
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Brad DeLong Adam Smith Lives! The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University is sponsoring an Undergraduate Ethics Symposium April 8-10, 2010. This conference is shaped around a series of workshops in which students present to one another their best work on a subject of ethical concern. I write to invite you to encourage your faculty to bring this event to the attention of their students. A Call for Essays and Creative Writing Projects is attached, and a tentative schedule for the symposium, which will be frequently updated, is available on our website: The students whose works are accepted for the symposium will benefit from the critiques and comments of their peers in the seminar, and also from the visiting scholar or creative writer who will direct the workshop. Sincerely, Martha Rainbolt Coordinator, Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics
Inflation Calculator | Find US Dollar's Value from 1913-2013 Economists' Forum Global economic recovery stuck below takeoff speed By Eswar Prasad and Karim Foda The global economic recovery remains stuck below takeoff speed, unable to achieve liftoff and facing the risk of stalling. Half-hearted fiscal austerity measures are proving to be a drag on growth and doing little to rebuild investor and consumer confidence. Monetary policy continues to shoulder the burden of limiting downside risks and has kept financial markets buoyant even in the face of weak growth prospects. The Brookings-FT Tiger index shows growth momentum remains weak in nearly all major advanced and emerging market economies. Read more GDP-linked bonds: a solution for Cyprus By Lenos Trigeorgis EU politicians have been locked in myopic and often self-defeating policies regarding bailout of troubled eurozone countries. An alternative would be to tie the coupon paid on rescue loans to the growth of the country’s economy. A new approach to corporate taxation By Michael Pomerleano By Professor Simon Deakin