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The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics/Financial Times Essay Prize 2010
Palgrave Macmillan and the Financial Times are pleased to announce the launch of our 2010 Essay Prize for economists under thirty, open to anyone interested in economics either from an academic or professional background.
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All subscriptions now include free access to the Archive: 1987 edition
All 1,919 articles from the classic first edition of The New Palgrave are now available. Selected articles from the Archive:
- Hunting and Gathering Economies; Vernon L Smith
- Quantity Theory of Money; Milton Friedman
- Financial Markets; Nils H Hakansson
- Principal and Agent (ii); Joseph E Stiglitz
- Continuity in Economic History; Donald N McCloskey
- Housework; Clair Brown and Amelia Preece
Why not browse the Archive (1987 edition)? Or read reviews from when it was first published?
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View Top 5- environmental economics By Robert N. Stavins
- justice By Amartya Sen
- justice (new perspectives) By Bertil Tungodden
- cost–benefit analysis By David L. Weimer
- Pareto efficiency By B. Lockwood
- development economics By Debraj Ray
- consumer expenditure By Angus Deaton
- economic growth By Peter Howitt and David N. Weil
- index numbers By W. Erwin Diewert
- low-income housing policy By Edgar O. Olsen
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Payroll Tax Holiday and the Trust Funds, by Arnold Kling
Megan McArdle writes, Politically, this has one major drawback: it's going to put huge holes in the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Since I think those trust funds are meaningless accounting devices, I don't think this has any practical relevance....
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Obama Announces Transportation Infrastructure Spending Plan
US President Barack Obama announced a transportation infrastructure spending plan to expand and renew US roads, railways and runways. The plan envisions a front-loaded $50-billion investment in the first year. The plan would also reform the way the US currently...
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A Bipartisan Stimulus Plan
President Obama and Democrats are of the Keynesian mindset that we need to get people to work and get the economy moving again and construction projects are a good way of doing so. Republicans disagree and favor tax cuts.On a totally different topic, Republicans...
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