Primer on White House Economic Advisers

Keith Henessey has a must read post on the topic.

What’s wrong with economics – Part II?

I had pointed to this very interesting speech by DeLisle Worrell, Governor of Central Bank of Barbados. I was really interested to check the profile of the Governor and was mighty impressed. He has done some really useful work on Caribbean economies and has served at IMF as a senior economist.

I also found this new speech which is like a continuation of his previous speech that criticised economists big time. This is given at Central Bank of Barbados’ Research Review Seminar on July 26, 2010. Supposedly the research department at the bank is quite good.

He says:

PBS resource of excellent interviews, write-ups etc

Here is the link.

Very useful. I have just started reading through the several links….

Merle Hazard… pens fantastic songs on the crisis

I am really late on this. I just found Merle Hazard who has written some terrific songs on the ongoing crisis.

He recorded this song with John Taylor of Taylor rule:

“INFLATION OR DEFLATION?”
By Merle Hazard

Assorted Links

• Ajay Shah points to three upcoming research meetings
• Kirti Rao writes on IFMR Blog about the need for microfinance/social cause firms to adopt- Social Performance Reporting. Read the interesting comments by Bindu Anant and Nachiket Mor at the end.
• JRV talks about  how cental bankers are criticising/discussing decisions made in monetary policy meetings.
• Gulzar as always has a superb post on “Big push” theory of development
• Krugman points how Bernanke’s analysis of Japan in 1990s could be replaced with Fed/US now. It is like a thriller really.
• WSJ Blog points to a new paper that says odds of recession are rising. Chinn posts about the paper as well
• Chinn updates inflation indicators and asks from disinflation to deflation? Well deflation hasn’t come yet, but rapid inflation should be the last thing to worry about.
• Rodrik’s new article – The Myth of Authoritarian Growth
• PFM BLog points IMF East AFRITAC is urgently seeking a PFM Advisor
• PSD Blog points to new criticism on random control trials. A tool should remain a toll. The US economists
• All links at Economix Blog are real good.