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Concrete Economics
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Concrete Economics

by Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 40m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Notes

Introduction

1. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s FRED—Federal Reserve Economic Data—website: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/; https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=VAPGDPMA.

2. The economist who has done the most to count and track the hypertrophy of the American finance sector is New York University’s Thomas Philippon. His CV is at http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tphilipp/vita.pdf. See especially: “Finance vs. Wal-Mart: Why Are Financial Services so Expensive?” in Rethinking the Financial Crisis, edited by Alan Blinder, Andrew Lo, and Robert Solow (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013); “Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909–2006,” with Ariell Reshef, Quarterly Journal of Economics ...

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