• US Consumers More Confident in The Economy in July

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:27:38
    NEW YORK — U.S. consumer confidence rose in July after four months of declines, as a brighter outlook for short-term hiring offset longer-term worries about the economy. The Conference Board says its Consumer Confidence Index increased to 65.9, from 62.7 in June. That’s the highest reading since April and better than the reading of 62 [...]

  • Will Ben Bernanke Pull the Trigger on More Bond Buying?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 15:00:47
    The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy brain trust – the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) — meets again today, and after a month of disappointing economic news following June’s meeting, the financial world is eagerly waiting to hear news of what action the Fed will take to goose the economy. At last month’s meeting, the Fed [...]

  • US Consumer Spending Flat, Income Up 0.5% in June

    Updated: 2012-07-31 14:55:05
    WASHINGTON — Americans spent no more in June than they did in May, even though their income grew at the fastest pace in three months. The lack of growth in spending follows a decline in the previous month, suggesting consumers are staying cautious with their money as they economy weakens. Income rose 0.5 percent, the Commerce Department said in [...]

  • Hierarchy, French Style

    Updated: 2012-07-30 01:44:43
    | Peter Klein | The French love hierarchy, right? Well, yes, but all hierarchies are not alike. Here’s a comoprehensive study of French manufacturing firms: The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies Lorenzo Caliendo, Ferdinando Monte, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg NBER Working Paper No. 18259, July 2012 We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study [...]

  • Conference Honoring Larry Ribstein

    Updated: 2012-07-27 20:14:08
    | Peter Klein | I only met  Larry Ribstein a few times but was deeply impressed with his erudition and insight. He is best known for his work on unincorporated businesses but was an expert in a number of areas of business law (as well as music and cinema). This November the GMU Law School is [...]

  • Macroeconomics QOTD

    Updated: 2012-07-21 18:29:57
    | Peter Klein | Courtesy of David Stockman (via Dennis): [T]he clamoring and clattering that you hear from the Keynesians . . . that austerity is bad forgets the fact that austerity isn’t an elective course. Austerity is something that happens to you when you’re broke. Filed under: - Klein -, Bailout / Financial Crisis

  • This and That: Invisible Hand, Tipping income and more…

    Updated: 2012-07-20 05:14:21
    The Invisible Hand on CBC CBC Radio has a new show called The Invisible Hand that takes a look at how economics plays a role in our everyday lives. The latest episode titled Love and Economics explored the role that concepts such as supply and demand and comparative advantage play in marriages and romantic relationships. [...]This and That: Invisible Hand, Tipping income and more… is brought to you by Canadian Capitalist -- Helping you to invest & prosper.

  • Obama on Small Business

    Updated: 2012-07-18 15:57:42
    | Peter Klein | President Obama’s gaffe about business creation — “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” — has been met with the usual reactions. Defenders claim he simply used infelicitous language to describe the vital role of government in providing essential goods, while critics point out, for [...]

  • Summer Readings

    Updated: 2012-07-13 17:45:31
    | Nicolai Foss | OK, my eleven weeks, Euro-style, full-tax-payer-paid, summer vacation starts today. In the time-honored tradition of narcissistic academic bloggers, here is what I plan to (hope to) read while frolicking on the beaches of the Riviera and relaxing in those small Spanish villages: Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind.  This will be a re-read. I read Haidt’s [...]

  • Hardware Matters

    Updated: 2012-07-11 16:45:09
    | Peter Klein | Joe Salerno’s post at Circle Bastiat, “There’s No Such Thing as a Free Cloud,” could have been an entry in our nothing new under the sun series. Joe highlights a recent HBR blog piece on the physical footprint and energy requirements of server farms, showing that success in the digital age [...]

  • SMS Career and Paper Development Workshop

    Updated: 2012-07-09 21:04:28
    | Peter Klein | Join Laura Cardinal, Bill Schulze, Tomi Laamanen, Bruce Lamont, Gerry McNamara, Karen Schnatterly, and me for a  research-focused senior PhD/junior faculty and paper development workshop at the 2012 Strategic Management Society meetings in Prague.  Full details below the fold.  Call for Participants Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance Interest Group Saturday, October 6, [...]

  • Entrepreneurship and the Auteur Theory

    Updated: 2012-07-06 19:44:40
    | Peter Klein | I’ve been reading Jack Mathews’ The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut, a fascinating — if absurdly one-sided — look at director Terry Gilliam’s struggle to get his 1985 film Brazil distributed in the US. Mathews tells the story as a noble [...]

  • Handbook of Economic Organization

    Updated: 2012-07-03 22:42:04
    | Peter Klein | Kudos to Anna Grandori for her edited volume, Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organization Theory, currently making its way through the editorial process at Edward Elgar. Blurb: The volume distinctively aims at integrating economic and organization theories for the explanation and design of economic organization. Economic organization is therefore [...]

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