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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Data Bank: A Real-Time Data Set For Macroeconomists, Dean D. Croushore, Tom Stark Sep 2000

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Data Bank: A Real-Time Data Set For Macroeconomists, Dean D. Croushore, Tom Stark

Economics Faculty Publications

Economic policies are set and forecasts are made based on data that policymakers and forecasters have available to them. But such data are often revised — at times significantly. As a result, when policies and forecasts are viewed from the perspective of today's data, they may not seem sensible. Recognizing this problem, the Research Department at the Philadelphia Fed created a real-time data set so that economists today have the same data that were available to policymakers and forecasters in the past. In this article, Dean Croushore and Tom Stark tell how the data set was constructed, show how large …


(Review) Entrepreneurs, Institutions And Economic Change: The Economic Thought Of J. A. Schumpeter (1905-1925), Spencer J. Pack Apr 2000

(Review) Entrepreneurs, Institutions And Economic Change: The Economic Thought Of J. A. Schumpeter (1905-1925), Spencer J. Pack

Economics Faculty Publications

Entrepreneurs, Institutions, and Economic Change: The Economic Thought of J. A. Schumpeter (l905-1925). By Nicolo De Vecchi. Translated by Anne Stone. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, l995. 192 pp. $80.00


(Review) Social Limits To Economic Theory, Spencer J. Pack Apr 2000

(Review) Social Limits To Economic Theory, Spencer J. Pack

Economics Faculty Publications

Reviews the book Social Limits to Economic Theory by Jon Mulberg. New York: Routledge, l995. 200 pp. $19.95.