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Asher Schechter raises a good point in How Market Power Leads to Corporate Political Influence but this comparison is troublesome: In 2016, the advocacy group Global Justice Now published a report showing that 69 of the world’s largest 100 economic entities are now corporations, not governments. With annual revenues of $485.9 billion, Walmart topped all but nine countries. GDP is a value-added concept – revenue is not. So what is the right metric? Walmart may have had this much revenue...

It is quite likely that I shall be on the receiving end of some strong opprobrium for this post, but, well, here it goes anyway.So, Shaun King in the New York Daily News in an article being spread around the internet has accused Thomas Jefferson of being a "rapist" (in the article headline) and "monstrous" in the body of the article for his relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings, who bore him six children, with her and them not ever being freed by the in-debt Jefferson.  Much of the...

Here’s a little economics lesson: supply and demand. You put the supply out there, and demand will follow. -- Rick Perry, U.S. Secretary of Energy While the media is having fun at the expense of Secretary Perry's asinine "economics lesson" it is worth pointing out that the very same publications that ridicule Perry perpetually peddle the exact same theory under the guise of "debunking" the imaginary lump-of-labor fallacy. Here is The Economist from yesterday telling its readers that the...

Why did Brad DeLong dig up some 2007 nonsense by Kevin DOW 36000 Hassett? When Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972, one of the contributions the awards committee cited was his miraculous “impossibility” theorem. Decades from now, Arrow’s theorem, originally drawn in his doctoral dissertation, will be viewed as the 20th-century idea that best anticipated the 21st century. While mathematical in origin, the impossibil¬ity theorem is simple to describe in words: A...

Video Software we use: https://amzn.to/2KpdCQF Ad-free videos. You can support us by purchasing something through our Amazon-Url, thanks :) John Barkley Rosser, Jr.is a mathematical economist and Professor of Economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since 1988.He is known for work in nonlinear economic dynamics, including applications in economics of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory .With Marina V. This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia,...

Title : Automating Abstract Interpretation Date: 5 Jan 2016 Speaker: Prof Thomas Reps, J. Barkley Rosser Professor & Rajiv and Ritu Batra Chair of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Please go to our webpage for more IAS Events: http://ias.ust.hk/

If you find our videos helpful you can support us by buying something from amazon. https://www.amazon.com/?tag=wiki-audio-20 J. Barkley Rosser John Barkley Rosser Sr.(December 6, 1907 – September 5, 1989) was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem, in lambda calculus. -Video is targeted to blind users Attribution: Article text available under CC-BY-SA image source in video...

An interview with J. Barkley Rosser, a nationally reknknowned economics scholar, professor, and academic mainstay at JMU.

J. Barkley Rosser, James Madison University, discusses "A Conceptual History of Economic Dynamics" at the 14th Annual Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought conference held on campus and hosted by the Jepson School of Leadership Studies. June 16, 2013