The Bretton Woods era through the exchange rate lens
A good way to visualize the effects of the international monetary system during the Bretton Wood era is to plot exchange rates over a long run period for the 19...
Tag: Economic History
Un moment Hamiltonien pour l’Europe… L’histoire sans fin ?
L’Histoire ne rampe pas. L’Histoire bondit. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). Dans ces temps troublés pour l’économie mondiale plongée dans un coma arti...
Europe’s Hamiltonian moment… Again
History does not crawl. History jumps. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). This article is accessible in a PDF version at the end of this post. In these dark times of...
Back to the Future Part II: the Phillips curve was discovered in 1926!?
On October 26, 1985, in Back to the Future Part II, Dr. Emmett Brown (Doc) and Marty Mac Fly go back to 1955 after trying to prevent Marty’s son from bein...
Skin in the game
It was a real pleasure to read this book. Set aside the provocative tone of the author and you will understand why having one’s skin in the game is so imp...
Quelques perspectives sur le revenu universel
The error contained in this sermon determined me to publish my “Agrarian Justice.” It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and ...
