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Johnny English (DVD)
Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, Douglas McFerran, …
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James Bond spoof starring Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English, a lowly
government clerk who suddenly finds himself promoted to the
position of Britain's Number One International Spy. Sent into
action after the crown jewels are stolen, English and his sidekick
Bough (Ben Miller) soon begin to suspect billionaire Pascal Sauvage
(John Malkovich). The plot thickens when the mysterious Lorna
Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia) begins turning up in the most
unexpected places.
Robert W. Clower has had a profound effect on the theory and
practice of economics. The distinguished group of contributors to
this book celebrates his seminal contribution to economic
methodology and theory by providing key accounts of important
themes in the area of money, markets and method. The volume begins
with a number of papers dealing with Robert Clower's work and his
views on methodology. The contributors then discuss Keynes's
General Theory and its relationship to conventional Keynesian
macroeconomic theory as well as the origins of the General Theory
itself, a subject that has been central to Clower's writings. The
analysis is then expanded to concentrate on how institutions matter
in thin markets. Finally, the authors analyse ways in which
adaptive behaviour influences the stability of markets in the
context of trading relationships, repeated games and retail stores.
Letters from Lockdown comprises 12 weekly letters written by the
Director of Westminster Abbey Institute during the Coronavirus
lockdown, and three accompanying essays that give the deeply
personal perspectives of a politician, a civil servant and a police
officer as the crisis unfolds. The letters are addressed to the
public servants trying to carry the nation through the peak of the
Covid-19 pandemic and were written to be a source of strength and
support. As she wrote them, the author was unaware how events would
unfold. Nevertheless, the 12-week period formed a narrative arc not
unlike a classic 'hero's journey' and the letters show some
similarities and differences between the classic plot and what the
nation and its public servants had actually been through. The
letters offer ways of strengthening public servants to make them
ready, constant and enduring in their response to the needs of the
nation. They speak of strengthening not just the soul of individual
public servants but also of their institutions. The essays address
not only the private and public struggles of public servants during
the crisis but ask what, if anything, will change in our world as a
result of the pandemic. They seek to equip public servants to
respond to and shape emerging worlds and new needs.
The coordination of economic activities involves many dimensions.
Yet many macroeconomists have tended to reduce the problem to a
single-dimension, that of getting prices right. Classical or New
Classical Economics, which embodies the view that coordination is
best left to market, is distinguished formally from Keynesian
economics (which depicts an economy in need of central guidance)
almost entirely by its assumption that wages and prices are
perfectly flexible. This volume brings together the author's key
contributions to the development of macroeconomic theory. The
essays record his attempts to deal with the coordination problems
raised by Keynesian economics and the difficulty of modeling them
in a way that meets the standards of rigor and coherence set by
Walrasian general equilibrium theory. They range from reflections
on the connections between Keynesian and Walrasian economics to
nontechnical discussions on the development of macroeconomic ideas.
Peter Howitt argues that this reduction of the coordination problem
to sticky prices is at the root of the decline of Keynesian
economics. Not only does it raise problems of legal coherence that
Keynesians have not succeeded in addressing, but more fundamentally
it is not very plausible. Though there is much evidence that wages
and prices are indeed less than fully flexible, there is no good
reason for attributing major coordination failures to the lack of
flexibility. All students and scholars interested in the
development of macroeconomic theory will find this a valuable and
stimulating book.
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