George Akerlof

Type: Person

Name: George Akerlof

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Links 5/17/13

Do you like my mane? Cat owners transform their pets into lions in latest internet craze Daily Mail (SW) Cells as living calculators MIT News Tony Hayward becomes Glencore Xstrata interim chairman FT White House scandals Why Washington scandal-mania ... [Published naked capitalism - May 17 2013]

Entities: George Akerlof, Michael Kinsley, Gillian Tett, David Swanson, Political Violence

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Paul Krugman

Links for 05-17-2013

Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry? - Justin Fox The myth of liquidity and bubbles in financial markets - Antonio Fatas Surprise! Inflation is too low almost everywhere on earth - Neil Irwin Cuddly or not, the design of worker insurance ... [Published Economist's View - May 17 2013]

Entities: Paul Krugman, Inflation, Justin Fox, George Akerlof, Jared Bernstein

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

George Akerlof on the Response to the Financial Crisis and Great Recession

In a blogpost taking stock of the IMF conference on lessons from the crisis, the Nobel laureate distills the lessons learned. ... [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 16 2013]

Entities: George Akerlof, Financial Crisis, Recession

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Janet Yellen

Ten Facts About Janet Yellen, the Woman Who Could Run the Fed

With Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s term expiring at the end of January 2014, attention is turning to Vice Chair Janet Yellen as a possible successor.She hardly has a lock on the job. Bernanke could re-up. A former Treasury secretary, either ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 13 2013]

Entities: Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke, Nobel Prize, Fort Hamilton High School

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 2 reports

LinkedIn Corp

Facebook Inc (FB) & LinkedIn Corp (LNKD) Don?t Need Google Inc (GOOG), Right?

LinkedIn Corp (NYSE:LNKD) reported a fairly strong quarter in terms of revenue and earnings. The outlook the company’s management team gave was a bit of a let-down, but then again, the company may be lowering expectations in an attempt to surprise shareholders ... [Published InsiderMonkey.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: LinkedIn Corp, Google Inc, New York Stock Exchange, Facebook Inc, George Akerlof

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteous Weed and Might Even Raise Your Hospital Bill

"Transparency" is one of those policy prescriptions that pretty much everyone can agree with, like "Be nice to people" and "Never run with scissors". $ Even libertarians generally smile when the government steps in to force businesses to provide more ... [Published Daily Beast - May 09 2013]

Entities: Tetrahydrocannabinol, Commodities, George Akerlof

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Ben Bernanke

Bernanke’s successor gets leeway

All that leeway suggests the Fed might be ensuring options are left open for a successor to Ben Bernanke, who likely won't seek reappointment as Fed chairman.Potential candidates for replacing Bernanke include Fed board vice chairman Janet L. Yellen, ... [Published Pittsburgh Tribune Review - May 05 2013]

Entities: Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., George Akerlof, James Tobin

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

The failure of capitalism

Figures on the state of the European economy published over the past week are not only the expression of a deepening economic and social crisis. They have a profound historical meaning, pointing to the bankruptcy of the capitalist economic order.In its ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 03 2013]

Entities: Olivier Blanchard, Crisis, International Monetary Fund, Karl Marx

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Noted for May 2, 2013

Evan Soltas:After Austerity: "The high tide for Keynesian fiscal stimulus came in 2008 and 2009. Panicked governments spent, spent and spent to stem the financial crisis and avoid a depression. But as economies stabilized in 2010 and 2011, governments ... [Published Brad DeLong - May 02 2013]

Entities: Friedman's Inc, Social Security, Tom Friedman, Matthew Yglesias, Paul Krugman

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

The Phishing Market Beyond the Internet

Most people have heard of phishing scams on Internet, in which a person is tricked into giving up their money or identity by a clever ruse.Temptations like this are found throughout all of capitalist society, says George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in ... [Published Duke University - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Phishing, George Akerlof, Market, Wikimedia Commons

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

William K. Black: What If George Akerlof Had Written About Lethal 'Lemons'?

If you have studied economics at the university level in the last 35 years, it is likely you were introduced to the concept of "asymmetrical information" and George Akerlof's famous 1970 article on markets for "lemons" (American slang for an automobile ... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Fraud, George Akerlof, William K. Black, Commodities, Criminologist

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Yellen’s focus on joblessness adopted by Fed

NEW YORK: Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen has fought for more than a decade to put attacking unemployment and boosting growth on an equal footing with fighting inflation at the heart of the Fed’s policy.After years on the periphery, she now ... [Published The Gulf Today - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve System

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Links 5/17/13 [Published naked capitalism - May 17 2013]
Links for 05-17-2013 [Published Economist's View - May 17 2013]
George Akerlof on the Response to the Financial... [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 16 2013]
George Akerlof on the Response to the Financial... [Published Econbrowser - May 16 2013]
Yellen Seen as Next Fed Chairman by One-Third i... [Published Bloomberg - May 16 2013]
Ten Facts About Janet Yellen, the Woman Who Cou... [Published BusinessWeek - May 13 2013]
A Top Contender at the Fed Faces Test Over Easy... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 13 2013]
Bill Black: Brown-Vitter Will Not and Cannot Wo... [Published naked capitalism - May 11 2013]
Facebook Inc (FB) & LinkedIn Corp (LNKD) Don?t ... [Published InsiderMonkey.com - May 10 2013]
Facebook and LinkedIn Can Both Co-Exist Without... [Published Motley Fool - May 10 2013]
How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteou... [Published Daily Beast - May 09 2013]
Bernanke’s successor gets leeway [Published Pittsburgh Tribune Review - May 05 2013]
The failure of capitalism [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 03 2013]
Fed vice-chairman has first refusal on the top job [Published Irish Independent - May 02 2013]
Noted for May 2, 2013 [Published Brad DeLong - May 02 2013]
Noted for May 2, 2013 [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 02 2013]
The Phishing Market Beyond the Internet [Published Duke University - Apr 30 2013]
The Fed’s Yellen is a leading contender in race... [Published Seattle Times - Apr 29 2013]
William K. Black: What If George Akerlof Had Wr... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 29 2013]
Yellen’s focus on joblessness adopted by Fed [Published The Gulf Today - Apr 27 2013]
The end of macroeconomic magic: Robert J. Samue... [Published Oregonian - Apr 22 2013]
Big thinkers still stumped on global economic c... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - Apr 22 2013]
Experts stumped on crisis rethink [Published BBC - Apr 22 2013]
George Osborne prepares for battle with the IMF [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 21 2013]
Rethinking Macro Policy: First Steps and Early ... [Published IMF - Apr 19 2013]
"Rethinking Macro Policy II: First Steps and Ea... [Published Econbrowser - Apr 16 2013]
DIARY-IMF, World Bank 2013 spring meetings in W... [Published Reuters - Apr 15 2013]
Must-Reads for Sunday Morning... [Published Brad DeLong - Apr 14 2013]
Must-Reads for Sunday Morning... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - Apr 14 2013]
The Science Of Human Nature Is Proving Classica... [Published Think Progress - Mar 26 2013]