Most Recent Articles from Business Economics

• Government lending and monetary policy 

  The financial dimension of the current contraction has brought a historic expansion in government lending to financial market participants, mostly...

  07/01/09 by Jeffrey M. Lacker · More from publication

• Globalization of the U.S. food supply: reconciling product safety regulation with free trade 

  The pet food recall in the spring of 2007, its aftermath, and other reports of contaminated food imports have had an adverse affect on the American...

  07/01/09 by Thomas A. Hemphill · More from publication

• From the editor 

  Business Economics (2009) 44, 129. doi:10.1057/be.2009.20 It was not surprising that the current banking crisis and recession held center stage...

  07/01/09 by Robert Thomas Crow · More from publication

• World mining machinery 

  Business Economics (2009) 44, 169-176. doi:10.1057/be.2009.2 World gross domestic product rose between 4 and 5 percent per annum during the...

  07/01/09 by Michael A. Deneen; Andrew C. Gross · More from publication

• An economist's role in disaster mitigation at FEMA 

  Business Economics (2009) 44, 177-181. doi:10.1057/be.2009.17 Economists played their (1) first role in disaster mitigation fieldwork in 2004....

  07/01/09 by Keith Burbank · More from publication

• Four long-term fiscal realities 

  The United States faces a long-run fiscal imbalance because of rapid projected growth in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending. The...

  07/01/09 by Alan D. Viard · More from publication

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