Theodore Dalrymple on the culture of inflation
In the Summer 2009 issue of City Journal Theodore Dalrymple discusses the cultural effects of inflation: asset inflation—ultimately, the debasement of the currency—as the principal source of wealth corrodes the character of people. It not only undermines the traditional bourgeois virtues but makes them ridiculous and even reverses them. Prudence becomes imprudence, thrift becomes improvidence, [...]
Classical economics and deflation
A 2004 research paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on Classical Deflation Theory concludes as follows: Of course, deflation under certain circumstances might not be a bad thing, that is, might have no adverse real effects. If so, policymakers could ignore it or implement it with impunity. Such would be the case for [...]
Crass Keynesianism
A recurrent comment about public policies inspired by Keynesian economics is that they are crass or vulgar. Instead of seeing a complicated and unpredictable interplay of individuals pursuing their own ends, society is perceived as a giant machine (“the economy”) that needs to be manipulated to produce specific policy outcomes (“economic growth”). Public policies inspired [...]
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- Cryonics and fear of the future
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