Daily Archives: June 17, 2013

“Let it be Done” An Alternative Narrative for Building what America Needs

By J.D. Alt

Somehow a great confusion has arisen. It has divided our nation into feuding, bickering camps, caused many to view their own government as a ruthless competitor, and is now seriously threatening us with, among other things, a frightening deluge of collapsing bridges. The confusion is about money—what it is, where it comes from and, most important, whether there is enough of it to pay for all the things we need as a nation.

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Myerson’s misses the Miasma that is Modern Executive Compensation

By William K. Black

This is the fourth installment of my exploration of the work of Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in economics in 2007.  It is part of what will be a broader series of articles exploring why economics is unique among the sciences in awarding the Prize to scholars whose predictive work proves profoundly wrong and leads to public policies that cause great harm.  The first installment used Myerson’s Prize lecture to explore his paean to plutocracy as the purported unique advantage of capitalism.

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NEP’s Bill Black Appears on Tell Somebody

Bill Black appeared on the June 11, 2013 pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody. The topics of discussion were economics and regulation. You can listen here.