The Best of Business Economics

The National Association for Business Economics is the premier professional association for business economists and others who use economics in the workplace. Since 1959, NABE has attracted the most prominent figures in economics, business, and academia to its membership with highly-regarded conferences, educational and career development offerings, and industry surveys. Robert Thomas Crow has served as editor of Business Economics since 1999. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist of the Bechtel Group. He has also been a member of the Bank of the Orient's Board of Directors and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in the Institute for International Studies.

Introduction; Robert Thomas Crow PART I: 1965-1974 1. A New Look At Monetary and Fiscal Policy (1967); Paul A. Volcker 2. The Role of Money in Economic Activity: Complicated or Simple? (1969); Edward M. Gramlich 3. Econometric Model Building for Growth Projections (1969); Lawrence R. Klein 4. President's Message (1970); Alan Greenspan 5. The Social Significance of Environmental Pollution (1970); Barry Commoner 6. The Productivity Slow-Down (1971); John W. Kendrick 7. Why Productivity is Important (1973); Geoffrey H. Moore PART II: 1975-1984 8. Presidential Address: NABE and the Business Forecaster (1975); Robert G. Dederick 9. Thoughts on Inflation: The Basic Forces (1975); Gottfried Haberler 10. The Practical Use of Economic Analysis in Investment Management (1975); Edmund A. Mennis 11. On Human Welfare (1979); Albert G. Matamoros 12. Company Total Factor Productivity: Refinements, Production Functions, and Certain Effects of Regulation (1981); Douglas L. Cocks 13. Conservatives, Economists, and Neckties (1983); Herbert Stein 14. Economics From Three Perspectives (1982); Marina v.N. Whitman 15. Was Adam Smith a Monetarist or a Keynesian? (1984); Charles P. Kindleberger PART III: 1985-1994 16. The Effect of Government on Economic Efficiency (1987); George J. Stigler 17. On the Structure of an Economy (1988); James M. Buchanan 18. Rethinking International Trade (1988); Paul Krugman 19. The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community (1989); Milton Friedman 20. A Guide to What is Known About Business Cycles (1990); Victor Zarnowitz 21. Some Financial Perspectives on Comparative Costs of Capital (1991); J. Fred Weston 22. Health Insurance Derivatives: The Newest Application of Modern Financial Risk Management (1993); James A. Hayes, Joseph B. Cole and David I. Meiselman PART IV: 1995-2014 23. An Ambitious Agenda for Economic Growth (1996); Murray Weidenbaum<24. Capitalism and its Discontents (1998); Michael J. Boskin 25. Protecting Against the Next Financial Crisis: The Need to Reform Global Financial Oversight, the IMF, and Monetary Policy Goals (1999); Henry Kaufman 26. How the Economy Came to Resemble the Model (1999); Alan S. Blinder 27. What Would Adam Smith Say Now? (2000); Henry Kaufman 28. Information Technology and the U.S. Productivity Revival: A Review of the Evidence (2001); Kevin J. Stiroh 29. Understanding Inflation: Lessons From My Central Banking Career (2002); Harvey Rosenblum 30. Managing Exchange Rates: Achievement of Global Re-Balancing or Evidence of Global Co-Dependency? (2004); Catherine L. Mann PART V: 2005-2015 31. The Explanatory Power of Monetary Policy Rules (2007); John B. Taylor 32. Adam Smith and the Political Economy of a Modern Financial Crisis (2008); Michael Mussa 33. Underwriting, Mortgage Lending, and House Prices: 1996-2008 (2009); James A. Wilcox 34. The Impact of the Housing Market Boom and Bust on Consumption Spending (2010); Jeremy A. Leonard 35. Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-Crisis World (2010); Janet L. Yellen 36. Nightmare on Kaiserstrasse (2011); Kenneth Rogoff 37. Financial Services and the Trust Deficit: Why the Industry Should Make Better Governance a Top Priority (2013); Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. 38. U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound (2014); Lawrence H. Summers PART VI: FEATURE ARTICLES 39. Focus on Industries and Markets: Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Equipment (2011); David A. Petina, Michael Murphy, Andrew C. Gross 40. Focus on Statistics: Initial Results of the 2012 Economic Census (2014); Robert P. Parker 41. Economics at Work: Economics at the American Chemistry Council (2014); Thomas Kevin Swift