Understanding financial consolidation

Keynote address for a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York entitled Financial Innovation and Monetary TransmissionFinancial modernization ; Bank mergers

Answering the challenges of creating economic opportunity

What can be done to promote economic opportunity for all citizens and help communities prosper? Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discussed this issue when he addressed members of the Commercial Club and the Commonwealth Club in Cincinnati on October 10, 2002.Community development

General discussion : understanding the Greenspan standard

Greenspan, Alan ; Monetary policy ; Business cycles ; Economic conditions

General discussion : the end of large current account deficits : 1970-2002 : are there lessons for the United States?

Greenspan, Alan ; Interest rates ; Deficit financing

General discussion : separating the business cycle from other economic fluctuations

Greenspan, Alan ; Monetary policy ; Business cycles

The Myth of Progress in Science: Dialectics, Distortion and Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union

The scientific controversy surrounding Lysenkoism is both unparalleled and well known amongst historians and philosophers of science (Joravsky 1970, McMullin 1987, Pollock 2009, Wolfe 2010). Yet, while this may be true for scholars and students a generation ago, I argue that the controversy of Lysenkoism is not widely known today. Particularly in political science, this historical period and phenomenon in the Soviet Union remains irrelevant or at least, inconsequential to the scientific study of politics