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The Elusive Benefits of Flexible Exchange RatesCAMBRIDGE – In 1953, Milton Friedman published an essay called “The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates,” arguing that they cushion an economy from internal and external shocks by bringing about just the right price changes required to keep the economy at full employment.
First published as samizdat that was smuggled out of Czechoslovakia, the essay makes a simple but compelling argument.
In a recent essay, Carter wrote that Obama, “misled” by his own analysis, viewed as suspect “recommendations from me and others to more aggressively challenge China’s excessive maritime claims and other counterproductive behaviors.”
The following year, he wrote a seminal essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” in which he described Czechoslovakia’s post-1968 “normalization” regime as a morally bankrupt system based on all-pervasive lying.
Most of the published responses to Ridley’s essay were critical.
In a 1995 essay for The New York Review of Books, the novelist Umberto Eco, who was born during Italian fascism in 1932, defines fascism expansively as a “cult of tradition” based in “selective populism.”
And Germans have been responding to an essay published by German Deputy Finance Minister Jens Spahn, in which he complains that English-speaking hipsters in Berlin are eroding German national identity.
Berlin-based elites have responded to Spahn’s essay with mockery, itself a reflection of the German capital’s increasingly cosmopolitan political culture since reunification.
Four years ago I wrote an essay on Mircea Eliade and his involvement in the right-wing extremism of the 1930s.
My essay, which dealt with past and present implications of the intellectual’s involvement with totalitarian nationalist ideology, touched a raw nerve with the Romanian public.
The essay focused on established facts and testimony -- yet it met an audience unwilling to accept this.
One critic, in the Bucharest review "Luceafarul" saw the essay as part of a huge American conspiracy to obscure the guilt of the US toward Native Americans, blacks, and the Vietnamese by focusing attention on Europe and its great guilt: the Holocaust.
My essay was damned part of a worldwide plot, and the exile, N.M., proved his loyalty to his adopted country.
Nearly 400 years ago, in 1644, John Milton published his Areopagitica, an essay denouncing a measure in Parliament for licensing the press that was intended, among other things, to suppress libelous publications.
That essay is widely regarded as the start of the worldwide movement for freedom of speech and the press.
The Gospel According to GatesBill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest and second richest person in America, and perhaps the world, are often described as admirers of Andrew Carnegie’s famous 1889 essay “The Gospel of Wealth.”
Even so, whereas Carnegie’s theory makes some sense (which is why his essay is remembered so well more than a century later), it isn’t obvious that he was right to believe that successful business people are the best administrators of charitable foundations.
Extreme AltruismPRINCETON – More than 40 years ago, in an essay entitled “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” I invited readers to imagine that they are walking past a shallow pond when they see a small child who has fallen in and seems to be drowning.
In a delightful essay, Warren Buffett’s business partner, Charlie Munger, pointed out that the concept can be extended much more widely.
Trading in Trump’s LiesBERKELEY – In a recent Vox essay outlining my thinking about US President Donald Trump’s emerging trade policy, I pointed out that a “bad” trade deal such as the North American Free Trade Agreement is responsible for only a vanishingly small fraction of lost US manufacturing jobs over the past 30 years.
I had promised Vox’s editor-in-chief, Ezra Klein, a 5,000-word essay on this topic by late September.
I ended up delivering 8,000 words in late January, but the essay still didn’t accomplish everything I had wanted it to.
MELBOURNE – In an essay published last month in The Guardian, 15 leading economists – including the Nobel laureates Angus Deaton, James Heckman, and Joseph Stiglitz – criticized what they call “the ‘aid effectiveness’ craze” on the grounds that it leads us to ignore the root causes of global poverty.
The economists’ essay then tells us that the supposed failure to make progress in reducing global poverty comes despite “hundreds of billions of dollars of aid.”
In a noted essay in 2004, for example, the Indian-born author Fareed Zakaria described the danger of what he called “illiberal democracy.”
The venture capitalist and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen wrote a widely read essay in 2011 entitled, “Why Software Is Eating the World.”
In her essay “Notes Toward a Dreampolitik,” Didion describes people who move about the world “forever felling trees in some interior wilderness.”
Each time I publish a scientific essay, I attract the attention of a dozen self-proclaimed messiahs eager to impart their divinely inspired ideas, which invariably lack higher mathematics (or, in the case of the black-hole sentinels, rely on elevated but meaningless mathematics).
In an essay he wrote for In Defense of Animals , a book I edited that appeared in 2006, he wrote, “No realistic level of guerilla attacks of the kind carried out by the Animal Liberation Front could have hurt the battery farming industry as much as the new Austrian law does.”
Soon after, CASS President Wang Weiguang thundered in an essay that class struggle would never be extinguished in China.
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