Economics Gone Astray (ePub)

Economics Gone Astray is a collection of essays on critical topics in macroeconomics that frame the issues in terms of clearly stated assumptions, highlighting the errors often made by professional economists, and allowing readers to better analyze market behavior and the economic consequences of policy decisions.

The book differs from textbook economics, as it tackles sophisticated topics without using mathematics or technical jargon. This makes the book highly accessible to all types of readers, from investors and investment professionals, to professors and their students.

The book's style integrates a large quantity of clearly drawn charts which help anchor the readers' perceptions of the topics being examined, from inflation to taxes, to demographics.

• Inflation: Why So Low for So Long
• Debt: Dangers of Excess
• Taxes and Growth: Why Tax Cuts do not Necessarily Stimulate Economic Growth
• Yield Curve: Predicting Recessions
• Demographics: Appreciating Economic Growth Potential
• Wages and Productivity: Structural Changes are Crucial to Understand
• Bitcoin Economics
• Market Regulation: Origins and Cultural Perspectives
• Volatility and Uncertainty
• Machine Learning: Challenges for Financial Market Predictive Analytics Suggest a Bayesian Solution
• Portfolio Optimization: Revolutionizing Risk Assessment Systems
• Beyond Implied Volatility: Estimating Robust Risk-Return Probability Distributions
• Death by Simulation
• Quantitative Easing: Evaluating QE's Impact
• Financial Crisis: Lessons from Different Management Approaches
• Taylor Rule: A Bayesian Interpretation of the Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate

• Economics Gone Astray is a collection of essays on critical topics in macroeconomics that frame the issues in terms of clearly stated assumptions, highlighting the errors often made by professional economists, and allowing readers to better analyze market behavior and the economic consequences of policy decisions
• The book differs from textbook economics, as tackles sophisticated topics without using mathematics or technical jargon. This makes the book highly accessible to all types of readers, from investors and investment professionals, to professors and their students
• The book's style integrates a large quantity of clearly drawn charts which help anchor the readers' perceptions of the topics being examined, from inflation to taxes, to demographics