Economists, Economic Debates and Policymaking

Update:

Key Economists of the 20^th Century

 Irving Fisher

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/irving-fisher-the-first-celebrity-finance-professor.html

Contributions of Friedman and Hayek (a very Keynesian perspective from Robert Solow)

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/110196/hayek-friedman-and-the-illusions-conservative-economics

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Microeconomists in the limelight

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21567079-meet-economists-who-are-making-markets-work-better-micro-stars-macro-effects

(Note: Preston McAfee of Caltech, profiled in the above article, received his PhD in Economics from Purdue U.)

Can minimum wage laws actually be beneficial?

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21567072-evidence-mounting-moderate-minimum-wages-can-do-more-good-harm

Should underwater mortgage principals be restructured?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/economists-obama-administration-at-odds-over-role-of-mortgage-debt-in-slow-recovery/2012/11/22/dc83f25e-2e87-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story.html

Argentina’s Sovereign Debt Saga - Legal Overreach?