An oasis of prosperity: solely an American phenomenon?
While economies worldwide falter, the United States remains steadfast. How did our nation get to be the land of milk and honey?
Macroeconomics: An Integrated Approach
Part I From Micro to Macro-Modelling Income Determination and Growth: Output, Inputs, and Growth Case Study - Sources of U.S. Growth Since 1950 The Dynamic Supply of Inputs Case Study - Why Has the US Saving Rate Declined? Case Study - The Worldwide Demographic Transition and the Supply of Capital Case Study - The U.S. Trend Toward Early Retirement The Dynamic Demand for Inputs and the Revolution of Output Case Study - Post-World War II Japanese and German Capital Deepening Case Study - The Black Plague Business Cycles Case Study - The Massachusetts Miracle Measurement of Outputs and Inputs Case Study - How Not to Impose a Sales Tax Case Study - How to Tax Consumption Saving and Growth in the International Economy Case Study - Japan After World War II and the US in the 19th Century. Part II Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Fiscal Policy, Saving and Growth Case Study - Generational Accounts, Now and In the Future Case Study - Social Security Case Study - Government Capital Formation Case Study - Tax Policy in the 1980s Money and Prices in the Closed Economy Case Study - California's 1992 Warrants Case Study - Real Money Balances During the German Hyperinflation Case Study - The Deflation of 1865-1879 Money, Prices and Policy in the Open Economy Case Study - Postwar U.S. Exchange Rate Regimes Case Study - Fixed Exchange Rates Under the Gold Standard Case Study - Purchasing-Power Parity and International Big Mac Prices Case Study - Stabilizing the Argentine Peso Case Study - The Debate Over European Monetary Union. Part III Economics Fluctuations: Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Presence of Price and Wage Rigidity Case Study - Price Rigidity-Magazine Prices and the Minimum Wage Understanding Recessions Case Study - Oil Price Shocks and Recessions Case Study - Do Anticipated or Unanticipated Money Shocks Affect US Output? Case Study - Consumer and Business Confidence and the Business Cycle. (Part contents)
Commentary on Judith Fingert Chused’s “An Analyst’s Uncertainty and Fear”
Chused’s lovely clinical report is not only a cri de coeur from the trenches by a master clinical analyst. With her honest description of her ongoing countertransference experience and her sensitivity to telling nuance and detail, she provides us with a rare document that allows us to consider the unfolding of the transference-countertransference and intersubjective matrices of the analytic process in all their messiness, complexity, and moment-to-moment unfathomability. Chused avoids the preprocessed, neatly shrink-wrapped reports of momentary countertransference experiences, seemingly quickly thought through, sanitized of their inevitable infiltration by still-unresolved intrapsychic conflicts of the analyst, and transformed into mutative interpretations—in short, the kind of report that we sometimes see in our literature—and instead allows us to focus on a different but equally important realm of intersubjective experience: the enmeshment of irreducible or only partially reducible aspects of the analyst’s and the patient’s intrapsychic lives, as well as their fate in the analytic process and in the post-termination self-analytic reflections of both. Partly because of the richness of Chused’s report, and partly because of the always tentative quality of understanding that may be reached as