I would be total misfit for this since finance for me is all mumbo jumbo. OTOH you don'f need fancy economists since they really can't do much in a system that either demands simple rules like financial conservatism (even leftists must follow this capitalist logic if serving) or can't do much because of state capture. I think it's a hit and miss of calibrating the interest rates to the particular rhythm of the economy at a particular moment, which is subject to exogenous factors. (The US is different from other countries since it still calls much of the shots in financial matters,
Anthony DCosta Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2013, at 4:12 AM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2013-06-20, at 1:33 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > >> Jim wrote: >> >>> Michael P., J. Huato, Doug H., and I would likely be too busy arguing >>> to get anything done. >> >> But that's why we have Max Sawicky. > > That's what happens when you drop names too quickly. I remembered that I had > forgotten M. Sawicky, S. Mage, T. Walker, M. Yates, E. Coyle, J. Bendien, and > A. D'Costa, and probably more than enough other capable economists on the > list to easily fill of all the Fed governor and regional seats. > > Then again, maybe it's just a bourgeois convention that economists need head > central banks. Che was, after all, the first president of the National Bank > of Cuba installed by the victorious revolution although everyone knows he > thought Fidel was asking for a good communist rather than economist to take > the post, and I've already nominated Doug. So perhaps there's hope for us all. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
