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If you're so smart: John Maynard Keynes and currency speculation in the interwar years [PDF]
, 2015 This article explores the risks and returns to currency speculation during the 1920s and 1930s. We study the performance of two well-known technical trading strategies (carry and momentum) and compare them with that of a fundamentals-based trader: John ...
Accominotti, O, Chambers, AD
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Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2016 Review of the books: Naím, Moisés. Prólogo de Fernando Henrique Cardoso Repensar el mundo. 111 sorpresas del siglo XXI. Debate, 2016 416 págs. Steil, Benn La batalla de Bretton Woods.
Alfredo Crespo Alcázar
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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La recuperación de una economía en crisis
Ensayos de Economía, 2014 Querido Señor Presidente, Usted se ha convertido a sí mismo en el fideicomisario de aquellos que, en todo el mundo, buscan reparar los males de nuestra condición mediante la experimentación racional dentro del marco del sistema social existente. Si usted
John Maynard Keynes
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Keynes in Madrid and the delightful people
Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020 In 1930, John Maynard Keynes travelled to Madrid to deliver an address titled “Possible Economic Situation of our Grandchildren”. In this visit, he gave an autographed note to a little girl, of just eight years of age, telling her that “she is living in ...
Bernat Sellarès Gómez
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De la mano de Keynes: "A tract on monetary reform" [PDF]
, 1998 En Tract on Monetary Reform, John Maynard Keynes propuso utilizar la base monetaria y el coeficiente de reserva bancaria como variables instrumentales d¿una política monetaria que había sido considerada hasta entonces innecesaria.
Sánchez Díaz, Emili
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Henry George and Silvio Gesell: The Odd Couple
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Henry George (1839–1897) and Silvio Gesell (1862–1930) developed distinct yet overlapping economic reform agendas. Both advocated land reform, free markets, and rejection of protectionism, but differed sharply on money, interest, and taxation.
Dirk Loehr
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Keynes's approach to full employment: aggregate or targeted demand? [PDF]
, 2008 This paper argues that John Maynard Keynes had a targeted (as contrasted with aggregate) demand approach to full employment. Modern policies, which aim to close the demand gap, are inconsistent with the Keynesian approach on both theoretical and ...
Tcherneva, Pavlina R.
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Colonial wars and trade restrictions: Fighting for exclusive trading rights
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, in which two metropolises compete for control over a colony's trade policy. In equilibrium, the metropolis that gains control can improve its terms of trade by restricting its rival's access to colonial trade.
Ivan G. Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens
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Taxi Drivers and Beauty Contests [PDF]
, 1997 The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The British economist John Maynard Keynes likened playing the market to voting for the prettiest face in a beauty contest; hence the second part of this article’s ...
Camerer, Colin F.
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