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Monday, June 12, 2017

Dirk Ehnts — Why I am a horizontalist

Once upon a time, there was a discussion about interest rates set by banks. Do banks:
  1. increase interest rates when they face a specially large demand or
  2. set interest rates and then ignore the demand for loans
The first position is called the verticalist position, the second the horizontalist.…
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Why I am a horizontalist
Dirk Ehnts | Lecturer at Bard College Berlin

1 comment:

  1. @Dirk Ehnts

    Wrong rhetorical question: “Why I am a horizontalist”

    Right question: “Why I never got macroeconomics right”*

    Egmont Kakarot-Handtke

    * See ‘The fundamental problem of economics: scientific incompetence aka stupidity’
    http://axecorg.blogspot.de/2017/04/the-fundamental-problem-of-economics.html

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