Category Archives: Economics

Report Suggests US Farmers Concerned About Trade War

(NewsUSA) | May 29, 2018 – For America’s agricultural producers, springtime means planting season – and soybeans are on the agenda. According to the USDA, the U.S. is currently the world’s leading soybean producer. As farmers work to get those soybeans in the ground this year, there are global issues weighing on their minds. The… Read More »

Economics Based on Keynes

By Martin Hahn  |   May 22, 2018 Keynesian economics, body of ideas set forth by John Maynard Keynes in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935-36) and other works, intended to provide a theoretical basis for government full-employment policies. It was the dominant school of macroeconomics and represented the prevailing approach to economic policy among most… Read More »

Classical Economics

By Martin Hahn  |   May 22, 2018 Classical economics, English school of economic notion that originated during the late 18th century with Adam Smith and that reached maturity in the works of David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill. The theories of the classical school, which dominated economic believing in Great Britain until approximately 1870, focused on economic freedom… Read More »

Jan Tinbergen and Econometric Models

By Martin Hahn  |   May 21, 2018 Jan Tinbergen, (born April twelve, 1903, The Hague, Netherlands. – died June nine, 1994, Netherlands), Dutch economist observed for the development of his of econometric models. He was the co-winner (with Ragnar Frisch) of the very first Nobel Prize for Economics, in 1969. Tinbergen was the brother of… Read More »

Economist Jan Tinbergen

By Martin Hahn  |    May 21, 2018    Jan Tinbergen, (born April twelve, 1903, The Hague, Netherlands. – died June nine, 1994, Netherlands), Dutch economist observed for the development of his of econometric models. He was the co-winner (with Ragnar Frisch) of the very first Nobel Prize for Economics, in 1969. Tinbergen was the brother of the zoologist… Read More »

Real Estate Outlook May 2018

By Eugene Vollucci  |    May 21, 2018 The Federal Government is moving ahead with monetary tightening. Several risks are rising, in our view. First, the risk of an escalation in trade tensions, with the investigation into Chinese intellectual property practices. Second, risks in the Middle East are rising again. Third, rising tensions with European countries could… Read More »

Economist Friedrich Hayek

By Martin Hahn  |   May 20, 2018 F.A. Hayek, also known as Friedrich A. Hayek, in total Friedrich August von Hayek, (born May eight, 1899, Vienna, Austria – died March twenty three, Germany), Freiburg, 1992, Austrian born British economist noted for the criticisms of his of the Keynesian welfare state and of totalitarian socialism. In 1974… Read More »

Debt Limits Economic Recovery for Single Woman

Melanie G. Long | April 30, 2018 For many Americans, the financial crisis that plunged the global economy into recession a decade ago may seem like a distant memory. Household net worth—the difference between assets and debts—reached a record $98.7 trillion in the last quarter of 2017, up from $56.2 trillion in 2008. Yet net wealth, by… Read More »

Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations

By Martin Hahn | April 17, 2018 The Wealth of Nations is actually a continuation of the philosophical design started in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The best issue to which Smith addresses himself is the way the internal battle among the passions as well as the “impartial spectator” – explicated in Moral Sentiments in… Read More »