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As Clive Crook and Arnold Kling remind us, even the most brilliant economists are not very good at settling basic questions over how the world works. To a greater extent than most of us would care to ...

The Treasury Department´s new pay cap for banks using Tarp has gotten plenty of attention on the news, despite its fundamental lack of teeth. Even if it doesn´t work, big-name executives on camera ...

Amar Bhide has produced a compelling Hayekian argument about underwriting efficiency and financial regulation, summarized here. His essential insight is that lending is not a process that is conducive ...

Amar Bhidé, professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and author of “A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy.” Featured Guest: Amar Bhidé, professor at Tufts University’s ...

Amar Bhide is a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of The Venturesome Economy. Although Bhide is fairly confident that the recession will not go on forever, he refuses to say when it ...

It is unclear why Amar Bhide doesn’t just simply support rejuvenation of the Fed Funds market, a place where he concedes banks “can successfully access credit without providing collateral.” While ...

BOSTON ― Saving the euro, say the sages of the global economy, requires radical steps. The OECD recently called for a large European firewall ― a mega-bailout fund for troubled governments and banks.

In my opinion, Amar Bhidé is one of the most important economic thinkers of our time. Along with Edmund Phelps and Jim Manzi, I think of him as the most important of the contemporary Hayekians. I’ve ...

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Amar Bhidé is a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and is the former Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia University. He has also served on the ...