wunder · LibraryBook X Conclusions 216
Read in the Wunder reader — free41. Relating to Mankiw’s “Principles” 216
42. Relating to Krugman, Phelps, Ormerod and Heilbroner & Milberg 219
Introduction 220
Review of positions and qualities 220
Krugman: “We don’t know” 222
Phelps: “Structural slumps” 224
Ormerod: “Death of economics” 228
H&M: “Crisis of vision” 230
All authors 232
43. Relating to Sen, Galbraith and Cox & Alm 232
Sen: “Development as freedom” 232
Galbraith: “Created Unequal” 235
Cox & Alm: “Myths of rich and poor” 242
44. Relating to the OECD and some of its authors 246
The OECD in general 246
The EITC, direct payroll tax reduction and wage cost subsidies 247
45. After 35 years of mass unemployment: An advice to boycott Holland 250
Summary 250
Introduction 251
First considerations 251
The realism of my advice 254
George W. Bush and Iraq and the American economy 254
More on Paul Krugman 256
The Dutch tragedy of the murder of Pim Fortuyn in 2002 256
On the European Enlargement 259
Advice to vote NO on the current proposals for a European Constitution 260
A note on my own position 261
Appendix: After 20 years of mass unemployment: Why we might wish for a parliamentary inquiry 262
46. Final conclusion 263
Epilogue 264
Appendices 266
On the definition of economics 266
Biographical note on Montesquieu 270
Price inflation and wage growth in Holland 1950-2002 272
Income distribution in Holland 1950 and 1988 273
Program used in the analysis on exposed and sheltered sectors 275
A note on Hayek 276
A note on Barrow’s “Impossibility” 278
A constitutional amendment for an Economic Supreme Court 279
A parallel argument on the Central Bank 281
About the US Council of Economic Advisers 282
From the “Employment Act of 1946” 282
Martin Feldstein on the US Council of Economic Advisers 283
Commenting on this 288
Presentation for the National Press in Washington 1993 289
Clinton administration EITC plans for 2000 293
Summaries of additional papers 298
A note on the New Economy (2000) 299
On the 2005 edition of this book 300
Autobiographical note 303
What is new in this analysis ? 305
Abstract 306
Literature 311
Index 323
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