Business Economics articles from January 1 2009

Business Economics archives from January 1 2009

From the editor.(economic conditions)(Editorial)
January 1, 2009... Well, gentle readers, you will have undoubtedly noted the new look of Business Economics. Beginning with this issue, we will be printed, published, and distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, joining their already extensive family of journals....

Adam Smith and the political economy of a modern financial crisis.(Adam Smith Enterprises Inc.)
January 1, 2009... Financial crises have occurred periodically for hundreds of years, and Adam Smith had important insights into their causes. Although by no means all that we know about such crises has been derived from Smith, it is interesting and important to...

Economic and financial climate change: a business economist's perspective.
January 1, 2009... Over the past 50 years, one of the key elements of the evolution of the world economy has been the increasing complexity of financial transactions. This complexity is manifested in financial layering and disintermediation that has increased...

The response of small business owners to changes in monetary policy.
January 1, 2009... The small business sector of the economy accounts for h0alf of private gross domestic product and well over half of private sector employment. Little is known about how these firms and the banks that serve them are affected by changes in...

The credit crunch of 2007-08: lessons private and public.
January 1, 2009... The current financial crisis has much in common with past crises. Poor investment strategies with respect to risk as well as poor evaluation have contributed to the current crisis. This paper presents the lessons to be learned by the private...

Health information technology and financing's next frontier: the potential of medical banking.
January 1, 2009... Calls to action for widespread adoption of electronic health records have come from a broad spectrum of the private and public sectors. The problem, to date, is not that information does not exist, as much as that the data have not been...

American business and the new social regulation.(Forum on Emerging Issues)
January 1, 2009... Thomas A. Hemphill is an assistant professor in the School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. Business Economics (2009) 44, 51-56. doi:10.1057/be.2008.3 Beginning in 2007, many U.S. industry associations radically adjusted...

Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... By Edward M. Gramlich, 2007. Urban Institute Press. Pp. 120, $26.50 paperback. Business Economics (2009) 44, 57-58. doi:10.1057/be.2008.4 For more than a year, in the United States and abroad, mortgage markets have been in turmoil....

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence.(Book review)
January 1, 2009... By Robert J. Samuelson, 2008. New York, NY: Random House. Pp. 336, $26.00 hardcover. Business Economics (2009) 44, 58-60. doi: 10.1057/be.2008.5 Robert J. Samuelson (no relation to Paul Anthony Samuelson of MIT) is an economics...