Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations
PART I: INTRODUCTION An Overview of the Book PART II: METHODOLOGY Mises Schutz Hayek PART III: THEORY Language Games and Economic Theory Expectations Big Players PART IV: APPLICATIONS Ruble Angular Distribution Money Demand Coda Appendices Index
Policy Design and Execution in a Complex World: Can We Learn from the Financial Crisis?
Abstract 
We repeat the mistakes of history because of the neglect of history, the imperfections of memory, and the complexity of social situations. I begin with a discussion of the first two and then turn to the third. After discussing the meaning and significance of complexity, I discuss the causal ambiguity surrounding economic policies and what this implies for the burden of proof in policy espousal and design. I consider the role of social institutions, their function and origins, and how they are able to facilitate human action in an economic environment of accelerating change. Institutions like markets, monetary systems, systems of common law, languages are all networks. So are groups of believers in the efficacy of certain kinds of economic policy. I consider the role of networks in general and in regard to economic cycles in particular. In the concluding section, I suggest that the implications of complexity for the occurrence of cycles, and the adoption of discretionary policies to deal with them, are likely not only to exacerbate the effects of the cycles, but also, more fundamentally, to subvert the fundamental institutional structure of our economy, what we may think of as our embedded constitutions, to the great long-term detriment of our economic health.
Reforming universities is key to technology transfer
This article explores the role universities in building indigenous capacity in science and technology in developing countries. Key players in the knowledge-based global economy, universities have an opportunity to participate in the effort of using technology to help alleviate poverty, create wealth, improve public health and ensure long-term environmental well-being. But, according to the author, they can only do so if they become stronger learning and research institutions, and engage in fundamental reforms to become both superior sources of information and unique mechanisms for promoting innovation.