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Description Traditional capital budgeting theory (as an extension of ®nancial economics) is characterized as Panglossian because of its suggestion that rational market outcomes produce the best of all possible worlds. During the last two decades, practice-oriented theorists have increasingly...

I remember an old joke economists shuold have one hand cut off then they will not be able to say on one hand this is the point and on the other hand this the point

I WAS reborn, born as an economist, at 8.00am on January 2nd 1932, in the University of Chicago classroom,” wrote Paul Samuelson in a memoir published earlier this month. He became probably the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. For his work in several branches of...

1. Economics is the only field in which two people can get a Nobel Prize for saying exactly the opposite thing. 2. A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks "What do two plus two equal?" The mathematician...

A Progressive Economists' View of the Global Economic Crisis Causes and solutions to the global financial crisis Suggestions about where to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Dateline: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 The current global financial meltdown provides an opportunity to...

Credit Policy: How do economists view it? Abheek Baruah, Chief Economist at HDFC Bank said banks can now reprice lending and deposit rates after the RBI policy announcement, in which the RBI kept all rates unchanged this time, reports CNBC-TV18. He said, "One of the explanations I have for the...