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Tyler Cowen (/ ˈ k aʊ ən /; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, columnist, and blogger.He is a professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department.
The Cambridge capital controversy, sometimes called "the capital controversy" [1] or "the two Cambridges debate", [2] was a dispute between proponents of two differing theoretical and mathematical positions in economics that started in the 1950s and lasted well into the 1960s.
Benjamin Cohen's life work is the political analysis of currencies. In Geography and the Future of money, Cohen began with what Susan Strange had begun: the currency pyramid. Cohen's work focused then on the denationalization of the currency or the monetary integration begun by the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.
In the history of economic thought, a school of economic thought is a group of economic thinkers who share or shared a mutual perspective on the way economies function. While economists do not always fit within particular schools, particularly in the modern era, classifying economists into schools of thought is common.
Stock-flow consistent models (SFC) are a family of non-equilibrium macroeconomic models based on a rigorous accounting framework, that seeks to guarantee a correct and comprehensive integration of all the flows and the stocks of an economy.
Lionel Robbins, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 1932; Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, 1951/1963; Ludwig von Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, 1962; Joan Robinson, Economic Philosophy, 1962; Kenneth E. Boulding, "Economics as a Moral Science", 1969; Amartya Sen, On Economic ...
The main thesis is that economic growth has slowed in the United States and in other advanced economies, as a result of falling rates of innovation. [3] In Chapter 1, Cowen describes the three major forms of "low-hanging fruit": the ease of cultivating free and unused land, rapid invention from 1880 to 1940 which capitalized on the scientific breakthroughs of the 18th and 19th centuries and ...
Principles of Economics may refer to a number of texts by different academic economists: Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre (Principles of Economics) (1870) by Carl Menger, the first to use the title, dropping "political" from the term "political economy" Principles of Economics (1890) by Alfred Marshall