Author: Sebi Buhai

A bit about the Unabomber & eco-terrorism

In his “Nothing is Sacred. Economic Ideas for the New Millenium”– a book I very much enjoyed, although that is not to say that I agreed 100% with the views stated in it- Robert Barro, one of the pre-eminent current economists and possibly an Economics Nobel Laureate not so far in the future, also talks about Al Gore’s “outrageous book”: “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit” and his extreme environmental positions taken there.
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An interview with Gregory Mankiw, back to Harvard after 2 years of being Chief Economic Adviser to Mr. Bush

What I find most interesting in this interview– next to the glimpse inside the White House having as guide a former Chief of the Council of Economic Advisers- is the part that characterizes Bush’s “economic thinking”.
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