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    Business cycle theories and their improvements are very interesting topics till now (although it is twentieth century product) because every economy wants a stables growth path but there are some expected or unexpected shocks which leads to fluctuations, as a result whole economy fluctuates. We are unable to foresee such fluctuations, so economists try their best in studying related situations in their country and rest of the world. They can´t afford applying a policy and its results. May be the

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    about social responsibility and shareholder theory presents in the article of economist Milton Friedman named “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”, which has been published in 1970n. In this article author, who has subsequently rewarded with the Nobel Prize, was formulated main points of shareholders theory and denounced the whole concept of socially responsible business. Friedman declared, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources

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    country’s banks had collapsed.” Since its occurrence, The Great Depression has sparked debates among economists and perhaps the most accurately represented are from a television debate in 1969. Two economists, Milton Freidman and Paul Samuelson presented their positions on the Depression. Friedman, believed it “had a single cause: errors in carrying out monetary policy in the United States.” Samuelson argued “it was the result of a series of historical accidents.” These opinions are quite famous when

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    Monetarists connection with the financial crises has its origins on the most influential economist since 1970, Milton Friedman. Friedman and Schwartz (1963) argued that financial crises are largerly exogenous phenomena and connected them with banking panics. As they documented, bank panics lead to decline in money supply because depositors withdraw their deposits and banks move to reserves rather than loans (Mishkin, 1992, pp. 122-124). The decline in money supply follows the contraction of aggregate

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    Objective This specific report addresses the pros and cons of how much government intervention in the marketplace is necessary and appropriate. This report will cover four authors, Cunningham, Green, Friedman and Pertschuk. The authors have written extensively on consumerism and the protection thereof. This author’s goal is to break down some of the theories, which authors seem akin in their beliefs and which authors’ views are bipolar opposites. Green states there be only should

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    prominent figures of economic theory and government interaction have emerged throughout the years. Two of the most influential theorist that have come to the fore front have been John Maynard Keyes, with his theory of Keynesian economics and Milton Friedman with his idea of monetarism. While both economists have had major influence on modern day economic policies, both theorist have contradicting ideas, this paper will aim to take a look at both Keynes and Friedman’s theories respectively and look

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    Expected Cost =iM+ρ(M,σ)q. [6] The optimal number of withdrawals for precautionary purposes is achieved when the marginal benefit from the increased liquidity is equal to the marginal cost of an individual. Evidently, the optimal amount of precautionary balance will be linked to the rate of interest because of the relationship between the marginal cost of withdrawal and interest forgone, i, as shown in the Figure 2 . Ultimately the link is established by the

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    Latiefah Stewart Professor Kahhat Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory 10/19/2016 Robert E. Lucas Robert E. Lucas was in Yakima, Washington, in 1937. He attended Seattle Public Schools, and graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1955. He was great at math and science. Growing up it was almost expected of Lucas to attend the University of Washington in Seattle, and become an engineer. This however wasn’t what happened. MIT didn’t grant him the scholarship he needed in order to

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    Stock Market Crash

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    when looking at historical interpretations of the period and the opinions surrounding the issue. Examples of key historians which differ in their interpretations towards the causes of the great depression include Anthony Badger, Paul Johnson and Milton Friedman

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    The Great Depression Brady Eyler Professor Farnsworth U.S. Economic History 11/14/17 Table of Contents The Great Depression 3 Dimensions of the Great Depression 3 Causes of the Great Depression 5 Stock crash 5 Monetary contraction 5 Banking crisis 6 The Role of the Financial Crisis 6 Route to Recovery 7 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 9 The Great Depression The great

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